Scrisse Le Quotes & Sayings

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward. — David Livingstone

Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I make a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think it is rather vain. — Oscar Wilde

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for. — Leon Panetta

There are times when each of us has to have some gumption to take a stand as to what we wish to preserve or change in order to maintain our self-respect and not be as "a reed shaken with the wind" (Matt. 11:7) ... We lose much credibility and strength, and we risk being weighed on an uneven balance, when, Don Quixote-like, we go around "tilting windmills". — James E. Faust

Ms. Baird," he said, using her formal title because it made her pay attention, "have I or have I not made it clear that I would like you in my bed? — Nalini Singh

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No
when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life. — David Levithan

The four horsemen of the human apocalypse, which cause the most premature and avoidable death in poor countries, are and will be for many years the same: hunger, dirty water, indoor smoke and malaria, which kill respectively about seven, three, three and two people per minute. If you want to do your fellow human beings good, spend your effort on combating those so that people can prosper, ready to meet climate challenges as they arrive. Economists estimate that a dollar spent on mitigating climate change brings ninety cents of benefits compared with $20 benefits per dollar spent on healthcare and $16 per dollar spent on hunger. Keeping climate at 1990 levels, assuming it could be done, would leave more than 90 per cent of human mortality causes untouched. — Matt Ridley

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. — Charles Schumer

You can take better care of your secret than another can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose. — Walter Lord

I've rarely seen portrayals of photojournalists that seem accurate. — Lynsey Addario