Shrouded In Myth Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to win to feed the hungry people of my community. I didn't want to win to buy a diamond.. I didn't have no diamonds then. I didn't want to win to buy a car, I didn't want to win to bring a couple of chicks downtown to a hotel. I wanted to win to feed the poor people of the community. — Mr. T

do not expect high CTRs on Facebook. Unlike Google, where the average CTR is 1%, on Facebook you can expect CTRs of 0.1%, as on Facebook ads are displayed and not searched for. — Gabriela Taylor

God will fulfil His gracious promises. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you sing to the mermaids, they come when you're drowning. — Tori Amos

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot. — George Washington

He wouldn't have been able to purchase this house if he wasn't so talented at tearing people down. — D.R. Hedge

There is not, beneath the sky, an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted the mother that bore me, into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world. — Frederick Douglass

Your integrity is more precious than your life. — Randall Dale Adams

The Central Intelligence Agency, America's best-known spy shop. In that fearful post-Joe McCarthy era, when assassinated JFK had publicly loved James Bond and secretly been entangled in covert intrigues like assassination plots against Cuba's Fidel Castro outsourced to the Mafia by our spies, the CIA was a myth-shrouded invisible army. In those pre-Internet days before electronic books, Web sites with varied credibility, and search — James Grady

Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation. — Michael Cunningham

The Democratic Party is on the move across the country. Voters are responding to our message of progress and fiscal responsibility. — Joe Andrew

This, Cora ... this is as perfect as two people can be — Jay Crownover

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway. — Morrissey

I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called him 'The Black Pimpernel'. — Kumi Naidoo

Your best kicks ass and takes names," Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again. — Allen Zadoff

There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons. — Gregory David Roberts

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. — George Saunders