Saksenaea Quotes & Sayings

Don't pull down the blinds. I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me! — Rudolph Valentino

why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world? — Erik Larson

WOMEN WHO STEPPED UP WERE MEASURED AS CITIZENS OF THE NATION, NOT AS WOMEN ... THIS WAS A PEOPLE'S WAR, AND EVERYONE WAS IN IT. — Oveta Culp Hobby

You pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges. — Jean Little

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. — Joseph Conrad

Mix a little mystery with everything, for mystery arouses veneration. — Baltasar Gracian

Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass. — Donald Hall

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not. — Joe Abercrombie

I admire them for making their way up and opening new opportunities for other Latin newcomers. Latinos have come a long way and the roles and opportunities just seem to be improving. — Roselyn Sanchez

Still, Dionne asked Obama to respond to critics who say he tells young black Americans to examine how their own actions might have contributed to their disadvantaged status, in ways he wouldn't to white youth. The president said he made "no apologies" for it. "And the reason is, is because I am a black man who grew up without a father and I know the cost that I paid for that," he said. "And I also know that I have the capacity to break that cycle, and as a consequence, I think my daughters are better off. — Anonymous