Prietene Rivale Quotes & Sayings

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands. — Fannie Hurst

Once there was a queen in a palace of bread.
Sing blue, sing white, stay up all night.
She nibbled on the walls and gobbled up her bed.
Sing white, sing blue, sing ballyhoo.
The people begged a crumb from their robust queen.
Sing blue, sing white, she ate all night.
She would not share a thing until it turned green.
So white, so blue, the mold it grew. — Shannon Hale

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not. — Francis Collins

What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven. — Friedrich Holderlin

Mom used to walk with me for something like two or three miles to get to the day-old bakery. They had those machines where you buy doughnuts, those vending machines with the long johns and doughnuts. We would buy those bagels and pastries because that was our treat. And come back with shopping bags of these sweets, and who knows what was in it? That was what we could afford that could feed that many people. — Sandra Cisneros

Because I am an African, I am a Ghanaian. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum. — Adele Griffin

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible. — A.C. Grayling

Perfect God, Prince of Peace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century. — C.P. Snow

Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like. — Donald Judd

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky. — Henry Adams

A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard. — Bruce Lee

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work. — Henry Ward Beecher

The one thing I will never do is buy a shirt because of its name, especially when it's $600 for that shirt. To me, that's ridiculous. It's just a shirt; it's not worth the money. — Macklemore