Sergievskaya Ballroom Quotes & Sayings

Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap. — Judah Ben Saul Ibn Tibbon

Senior Republicans certainly expected the president to come clean over Miss Lewinsky. — Bridget Kendall

Winston Churchill, today an idealized hero of history, was in his time variously considered a bombastic blunderer, an unstable politician, an intermittently inspired orator, a reckless self-dramatizer, a voluminous able writer in an old-fashioned vein, and a warmongering drunkard. Through most of his long life he cut an antic, brilliant, occasionally absurd figure in British affairs. He never won the trust of the people until 1940, when he was sixty-six years old, and — Herman Wouk

Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble. — Gloria Steinem

I can bring Rain with me everywhere I go, but when she's in school, I don't know what I'll do. The longest I've been away from her is three days, and I cried my eyes out. The first day of school will be so hard. — Marisol Nichols

Grady, Zane said, throat aching. Do what you have to and then get your ass home. — Abigail Roux

Surprise is the enemy of prudence. — Goliarda Sapienza

Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living. — David Hewson

In Israel we tend to be carried away by our emotions. — Ehud Olmert

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read. — Eleanor Brown

I knew that nothing stranger
had ever happened, that nothing
stranger could ever happen. — Elizabeth Bishop

The hardest things to do are sometimes the ones that prove most meaningful, but not necessarily the ones we remember most fondly. — Katy Evans

I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. — Suzanne Collins