Osferth Last Kingdom Quotes & Sayings

evil is the nature of mankind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody is too important to lead the initiative you say is important. — Jack Welch

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species. — Jose Mujica

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. — Maya Angelou

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self. — Demosthenes

A novel can best be defined as a long piece of prose with something wrong with it, — Neil Gaiman

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom. — Alice Childress

The true lovers of humanity are those who put on the uniform with regret, fight like hell when they wear it, take it off without rejoicing, but hang it where it can be got at if necessary, and remember that they must still stand watch in civilian clothes over the trophies of victory. — Rupert Hughes

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers. — Buzz Aldrin

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch. — Evangeline Lilly

There is the distance of miles, and the distance of brothers, to overcome. He can feel the world coming between them again. But the world is so much smaller than it used to be. — David Levithan