Potentate Synonym Quotes & Sayings

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

There's always male roles I want to play. I'm so annoyed when I watch movies and go, "That could have been played by a woman." — Jennifer Lawrence

HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes. — Rick Warren

Detainees were not allowed to talk to each other, but we enjoyed looking at each other. The punishment for talking was hanging the detainee by the hands with his feet barely touching the ground. I saw an Afghani detainee who passed out a couple of times while hanging from his hands. The medics "fixed" him and hung him back up. Other detainees were luckier: they were hung for a certain time and then released. Most of the detainees tried to talk while they were hanging, which made the guards double their punishment. There was a very old Afghani fellow who reportedly was arrested to turn over his son. The guy was mentally sick; he couldn't stop talking because he didn't know where he was, nor why. I don't think he understood his environment, but the guards kept dutifully hanging him. It was so pitiful. One day one of the guards threw him on his face, and he was crying like a baby. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued. — Thomas Sowell

When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. — Kurt Cobain

If anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. — John Green

If I send the ball home, I know what will happen to it. My twin brothers will take it out on the lot, like any 20-cent rocket. — Mickey Mantle

a beginner is not a worker, but a finisher is. — Mariam

I always believed that WikiLeaks as a concept would perform a global role, and to some degree it was clear that it was doing that as far back as 2007 when it changed the result of the Kenyan general election. — Julian Assange

I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable. — Steve Martin

The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time. — Andre Leon Talley

I am grateful that I live in a nation where most believe that one's punishment should fit their wrongdoing and that ours is a nation that judges an individual by both what he has done and how he has changed. — Pete Rose