Potabile Quotes & Sayings

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem. — Condoleezza Rice

You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself — Sunday Adelaja

You've got nothing to worry about, beautiful. I'm faithful to the core, a real one-woman man. And it excites the hell out of me to think that you're my one woman. — Jamie Hill

For some, memories are a blessing. They give one something to look at and cherish in dark times. For some, memories are a curse. They give one pain, guilt, and sorrow. But for all, memories make up who we are now. — Taylor Chackowsky

I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me — Marie Lu

Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes. — Eric Betzig

(On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back. — Leonel Manzano

Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary ... It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting. — Joshua L. Goldberg

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go. — Reggie Watts

Ethan Hawke is not a horror movie fan, but he's a really good friend of mine, and I finally cajoled him into doing 'Sinister.' Later, he said one of the reasons he was really resistant to doing a horror movie is he thought it'd be really scary on set. — Jason Blum

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick? — Stephen Fry

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He's last voyage, probably as a result of — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

A friend, even if he be the enemy's son , should be protected. — Chanakya

This mixture of political and geographical considerations compounded Saddam's failure to grasp the operational requirements of such a campaign. Rather than allowing his forces to advance until their momentum was exhausted, he voluntarily halted their advance within a week of the onset of hostilities and then announced his willingness to negotiate a settlement. This decision not to capitalise on Iraq's early military successes by applying increased pressure had a number of dire consequences which, in turn, led to the reversal of the course of the war. It saved the Iranian army from a decisive defeat and gave Tehran precious time to re-organise and regroup; and it had a devastating impact on the morale of the Iraqi army and hence on its combat performance. Above all, the limited Iraqi invasion did nothing to endanger the revolutionary regime, nor to drive Ayatollah Khomeini towards moderation. — Efraim Karsh