Resmini And Sons Quotes & Sayings

The two national powers that dominated the colonies, France and Britain, represented two different models of corruption. Britain was seen as a failed ideal. It was corrupted republic, a place where the premise of government was basically sound but civic virtue - that of the public and public officials - was degenerating. On the other hand, France was seen as more essentially corrupt, a nation in which there was no true polity, but instead exchanges of luxury for power; a nation populated by weak subjects and flattering courtiers. Britain was the greater tragedy, because it held the promise of integrity, whereas France was simply something of a civic cesspool. — Zephyr Teachout

What, indeed, had I done in all my thirty years of conscious life? Not only had I failed to live my life for the sake of all, but I had not even lived it for myself. I had lived as a parasite, and once I asked myself why I had lived, the answer I received was: for nothing. — Leo Tolstoy

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life. — John Landy

All I really wanted was to try to live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so difficult? — Hermann Hesse

When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first. — Morgan Neville

Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. — P. J. O'Rourke

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal. — Melinda Gates

Srikkanth is a vegetarian. If he swallows a fly, he will be in trouble — Sunil Gavaskar

Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love. — Catherine Marshall

One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be. — Richard Carlson

I do not dislike him. I consider him, on the contrary, as a very respectable man, who has everybody's good word and nobody's notice ... — Jane Austen

In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers. — Myriam Miedzian

A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing. — Derren Brown

I had always liked him, but it never really occurred to me to like him, like him. — John Green