Piedade Sande Quotes & Sayings

All my life I was taught to stay out of the way of the powerful. Don't draw attention to yourself. Don't show off. Guard your blood, because it will betray you. If you bleed, wipe it clean and burn the rag. Burn the bandages. If someone manages to obtain some of your blood, kill him and destroy the sample. At first it was a matter of survival. Later it became a matter of vengeance.
Meeting the Beast Lord meant plunging head first into the supernatural politics of Atlanta. He was one of the heavyweights. — Ilona Andrews

History shows that there are no invincible armies. — Joseph Stalin

I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral. — Thomas Friedman

I'm not sure what gave me empathy for animals, but I do know that I have always loved animals since I was a very young child. I always felt a need to nurture and protect them. Perhaps I could see they needed that, and caring for them made me happy. — Alison Eastwood

What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing. — Margaret Atwood

Anxiety is extremely contagious, but so is calm. — Harriet Lerner

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky. — Italo Calvino

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. — P. J. O'Rourke

Drat! She'd invaded his hula hoop. — Virginia Smith

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time ... The losses are what define a man's faith. — Brandon Sanderson

Another agricultural trend of growing concern is the increased nutrient content of coastal waters resulting from fertilizer runoff in agricultural regions. Augmented by urban sewage discharge in some situations, this results in huge algal blooms, which, as they die and decay, deplete the oxygen content in the water, leading to the death of the fish. — Lester R. Brown

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen — P.G. Wodehouse

I've always been a sci-fi geek, and I've always loved it. It's my favorite genre of all. The irony of ironies is that, in my early career, I just really never worked in it. "Star Trek" was very interested in me, partially because I did "From the Earth to the Moon," and I was really interested in them, but the timing just never worked out. — Remi Aubuchon

If you want it bad enough, you have to be willing to fight for it. — Chalene Johnson