S211 Quotes & Sayings

For decathletes, our event goes all throughout the day so you're trying to go up and down and up and down emotionally and physically and you know mentally you're just on a roller coaster. — Bryan Clay

Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops - that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating. — Michael Chabon

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country. — George Orwell

The mind is the leader or forerunner of all actions. — Joyce Meyer

He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true. — Rose Tremain

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption. — C.J. Sansom

I had lost some of my naivete and gained strength. These women with their pointless scheming could not contain me, and I watched the volatile world of the gynaeceum with a detached eye. The Forbidden City had buried my youth, and in the monastery, I had died and come back to life. Friends, enemies and mistresses had all disappeared. I was a ghost from a lost world, still going from one season to the next and still living for one man alone. — Shan Sa

Thank you Lord.
Thank you Lord for gift of life.
Thank you Lord for divine protection. Thank you Lord for daily guidance.
Thank you for the miraculously saving my life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I was in the US, I felt that the discourse there surrounding Muslims as the other, problematising Muslims and Islam as the other was very similar to what we find in Australia, which is that the image of Islam is a constructed image in the West. We are starting from a point of view that Islam and Muslims - well Islam is a violent, misogynistic, hateful religion and that is where the debate always starts from - that presumption underlies the discourse. — Reza Aslan

Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen. — David Wilkerson

I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo. — Harry S. Truman