Phoenicians Civilization Quotes & Sayings

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson — John Irving

I fear you're correct there. Catherine warns me that he has the look of a scoundrel about him."
"Jack has told me that he's not going to let his daughter out of the house until she's forty. — Lorraine Heath

The placebo effect is well documented and not even very mysterious. Dummy pills, with no pharmacological activity at all, demonstrably improve health. That is why double-blind drug trials must use placebos as controls. It's why homoeopathic remedies appear to work, even though they are so dilute that they have the same amount of active ingredient as the placebo control - zero molecules. — Richard Dawkins

Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator. — Duane Elmer

Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer. — Nicholas Tucker

When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic. — Lou Adler

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector. — Mitt Romney

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person. — Richard D. James

It gets better. It never gets easy, but it does start to hurt a little less. — Seanan McGuire

There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help. — Charles Bukowski

Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think? — Josephine Tey

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. — Candace Parker

I recall his somber eyes during that last, private conversation. His eyes and his words, far too wise for a boy of ten: only time will tell, Lia.
In the end, I suppose it will. — Michelle Zink

We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education. — Sharad Vivek Sagar