Polityczna Kawa Quotes & Sayings

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid. — Max Von Essen

The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. — Michael Hastings

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly. — Jennifer McMahon

Parenthood is a very, very intense experience. — Julianne Moore

For some reason the word "chronic" often has to be explained. It does not mean severe, though many chronic conditions can be exceptionally serious and indeed life-threatening. No, "chronic" means persistent over time, enduring, constant. Diabetes is a chronic condition, but measles is not. With measles, you contract it and then it is gone. It can sometimes be fatal, but is never chronic. Manic depression, in other words, is something you have to learn to live with. There are therapies which may help some people to function and function for the most part happily and well. Sometimes a talking therapy, sometimes pharmaceutical intervention helps. — Stephen Fry

Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior. — Charles Grandison Finney

Enough is as good as a feast. And it's when everyone is equal that your kids are safest. — Kim Stanley Robinson

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure. — Nikki Giovanni

Was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptized?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it. — Saint Augustine

I no longer know what the Lord wants of us... Even what we're doing here seems pointless to me! What's the use of the books I've brought with me? All those bookcases in the house? The things we learn, the things we discuss? Not so long ago, I was convinced that cultivating our minds would help us change the course of this world. I told myself, 'We women should change. Then we might be able to curb the folly of men.' I don't believe that now. As soon as I leave Magdala, as soon as I spend a day in the streets of Tarichea, I get the feeling we're becoming more and more learned and more and more useless. — Marek Halter

You haven't locked yourself in any rooms or rocked in any corners, right?"
I rolled my eyes and began walking again. "No Daemon, but thanks for making sure I'm mentally sound and all. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing. — Sally Field

That was exactly what happened - the conformists showed less brain activity in the frontal, decision-making regions and more in the areas of the brain associated with perception. Peer pressure, in other words, is not only unpleasant, but can actually change your view of a problem. — Susan Cain

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from. — Tacitus