Pedacitos In English Quotes & Sayings

If you can't say "Fuck" you can't say, "Fuck the government. — Lenny Bruce

We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice. — Anthony Horowitz

Reputations are built one successfully fulfilled promise at a time. — Josh Weltman

These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding. — John Yu

The author of IRR, who worshipped the King, said he had the valor of Hector, the magnanimity of Achilles, the liberality of Titus, the eloquence of Nestor, and the prudence of Ulysses; that he was the equal of Alexander and not inferior to Roland. But later historians tend to picture him rather as a remorseless, kindless villain. He was probably not a pleasant or a lovable character; none of the Plantagenets were. But a great soldier and a great commander he certainly was. He possessed that one quality without which nothing else in a commander counts: the determination to win. To this everything else - mercy, moderation, tact - was sacrificed. The avarice that so horrifies his critics was not simple greed: it was a quartermaster's greed for his army. His massacre of the prisoners was not simple cruelty, but a deliberate reminder to Saladin to keep faith with the terms agreed to, which that great opponent understood and respected. — Barbara W. Tuchman

This is my fate, I thought, a little deliriously. I die getting monologued to by a supervillain. — Wildbow

Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives. — Frederick Lenz

The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense. — Julian Short

If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least. — Alexander McCall Smith

Dear God, she was getting turned on in the middle of a roadside emergency. This had to stop. — Miranda Liasson