Pamarta Bali Beach Resort Quotes & Sayings

Thirty-six House incumbents with ratings from the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education of seventy-five or higher were defeated - especially traumatic since Republicans had filibustered labor's fondest legislative wish: a repeal of the right-to-work provision of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. Union members voted for politicians who weakened their unions because the Democrats supported civil rights. — Rick Perlstein

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it. — Saint John Chrysostom

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative. — Mahatma Gandhi

She thought of Chacko's laugh, and a smile stayed in her eyes for a long time. — Arundhati Roy

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. — Frances McDormand

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida. — Helen Van Slyke

I'm sure Alex will be having to get the masseurs in to work on those legs. You feel tired when you're losing but when you are winning it gives you that bit of an edge. — Graham Roberts

Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet. — Kristin Armstrong

I first met Jelly Roll in Chicago. He was livin' high then. You know, Jelly was a travelin' cat, sharp and good lookin' and always about he wrote this and that and the other thing - in fact, everything! — Zutty Singleton

Tomorrow is the day of the yearly election of the Well-Doer. Tomorrow we shall again hand over to our Well-Doer the keys to the impregnable fortress of our happiness. Certainly this in no way resembles the disorderly, unorganized election days of the ancients, on which (it seems so funny!) they did not even know in advance the result of the election. To build a state on some non-discountable contingencies, to build blindly - what could be more nonsensical? Yet centuries had to pass before this was understood! — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Even if I have to do it alone, I will free all sentient beings from suffering and the causes of suffering, and set all sentient beings in happiness and its causes. — Dalai Lama XIV