Relatif A La Quotes & Sayings

During that year by the railroad embankment, at the time of my father's complete disaster, distance meant for us not only some faraway lyrical splendor but also the exceedingly utilitarian idea of running away, the deliverance from fear and hunger. — Danilo Kis

Power is like that; everyone feels it at once. — Jennifer Egan

The first time you went to the gym, to be trained and worked out, there'd be about four or five wrestlers, they'd take you to heavy calisthenics and then they beat the tar out of you ... after you got tired. If you came back the next day they'd do the same thing. After about four days of you surviving this punishment, then maybe they might show you how to wrestle. That was to teach respect. — George Steele

Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities. — Candice S. Miller

When sunlight, which contains red, yellow, green, and blue light, shines on a mud puddle with oil on it, the areas that strongly reflect each of those colors overlap and produce all kinds of combinations which our eyes see as different colors ... This phenomenon of colors produced by the partial reflection of white light by two surfaces is called iridescence, and can be found in many places ... the more you see how strangely Nature behaves, the harder it is to make a model that explains how even the simplest phenomena actually work. — Richard Feynman

Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a franchise. — Don Yaeger

Your choice is your destiny. However, God makes it sure that whatever you choose, it is good for you and the rest of the universe... — Amit Kumar Srivastava

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. — Hans Haacke

Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it. — Billy Graham

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece. — Peter Shaffer