Shahbazian Quotes & Sayings

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you. — Fred Thompson

The day drags through though storms keep out the sun;
And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on:
Even as a broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies; and makes
A thousand images of one that was,
The same, and still the more, the more it breaks;
And thus the heart will do which not forsakes,
Living in shattered guise, and still, and cold,
And bloodless, with its sleepless sorrow aches,
Yet withers on till all without is old,
Showing no visible sign, for such things are untold. — George Gordon Byron

It is demonstrable," said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord has a magnificent castle; for the greatest baron in the province ought to be the best lodged. Swine were intended to be eaten, therefore we eat pork all the year round: and they, who assert that everything is right, do not express themselves correctly; they should say that everything is best. — Voltaire

Truth has always been relative in China, but political power has not, they say, and the same is still true today. — Rob Gifford

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched. — Patrick Kane

Yet another Albert Grossman client. 225 At — Dennis McDougal

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too. — George Saunders

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player. — Reggie Jackson

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails. — Aesop

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. — William Shakespeare

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. — Frank Langella

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think. — Guy De Maupassant

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. — A. Best