Preobrazhensky Guards Quotes & Sayings

You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small revolution. — Judy Budnitz

I was very good in all the maths and sciences. — Tamara Tunie

An unread book is just a block of paper. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies. — Hillary Clinton

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics. — Al Jourgensen

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing. — Fran Lebowitz

I told you I don't want to meet 'girls' and I'm not going to find a woman of any substance at the bars where you yahoos hang out."
"Then set up one of those online dating accounts. They have them for older folks now."
"Older folks?" Rohn let out a snort as that hit him hard, like a punch to the gut.
"Great. Thanks a lot." How the hell old did these kids think he was, anyway? Rohn had quite a few years left before he turned fifty ... — Cat Johnson

First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life. — Milan Kundera

Rule was still personal, deriving from the fief of land and oath of homage. Not citizen to state but vassal to lord was the bond that underlay political structure. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Women are difficult enough to understand, he thought, and I had to go and pick the oddest one of the lot. — Brandon Sanderson

Oppression theology and supremacist spirituality developed in the belief ecosystem of an angry God who needed appeasement in order to dispense grace, who favored some and disfavored others, and who welcomed the favored into religious institutions that accumulated and hoarded privilege and protected the status quo. — Brian McLaren

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary. — John Le Carre

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you? — Joni Eareckson Tada

All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity of life there :places where, like the child that 'feels its life in every limb' in Wordsworth's poem'We are seven' ,our eyes have opened wider, and all our senses have somehow heightened.By way of returning the compliment , we accord these places that have given us such joy a special place in our memories and imaginations. They live on in us, wherever we may be, however far from them. — Roger Deakin