Showned Quotes & Sayings

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. — Nicolas Bentley

There are follies as catching as contagious disorders. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In this very moment I'm king In this very moment I slayed Goliath with a sling — Nicki Minaj

We treat China as a normal trading and economic partner. — Tsai Ing-wen

Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.
Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.
Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would. — Toba Beta

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. — Edith Sitwell

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination. — Alan Bullock

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide. — Eddie Cochran

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self. — Meher Baba

The Neanderthals had it tougher; their long spears and canyon ambushes were useless against the fleet prairie creatures, and the big game they preferred was retreating deeper into the dwindling forests. Well, why didn't they just adopt the hunting strategy of the Running Men? They were smart and certainly strong enough, but that was the problem; they were too strong. Once temperatures climb above 90 degrees Fahrenheit, a few extra pounds of body weight make a huge difference - so much so that to maintain heat balance, a 160-pound runner would lose nearly three minutes per mile in a marathon against a one hundred-pound runner. In a two-hour pursuit of a deer, the Running Men would leave the Neanderthal competition more than ten miles behind. Smothered in muscle, the Neanderthals followed the mastodons into the dying forest, and oblivion. The new world was made for runners, and running just wasn't their thing. Privately, — Christopher McDougall