Shulgi Of Ur Quotes & Sayings

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before! — C. JoyBell C.

Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy. — Stephen Colbert

Assyria had no more prospect of halting the human flow than can the British government stop illegal entrants to the UK, although an effective natural moat surrounds the British Isles. There is little hope that the US Department of Homeland Security will have greater success with its border fence than did King Shulgi of Ur and his successors, whose 'wall to keep out the Amorites' failed to prevent the migrants' eventual takeover of all lower Mesopotamia and their founding of Old Babylon. — Paul Kriwaczek

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. — Jasper Johns

Why was it I was seeing beauty in death rather than life? — Sui Ishida

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I'd tell you to shove your condescending tone up your ass, but a big stick got there first. — Dawn Jayne

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older. — Sarah Brightman

We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It is a happy moment when our desire crosses with the will of Heavenly Father. — C.S. Lewis

Dare to be as great as the people who love you mistakenly think you are. — James S.A. Corey

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold
if you have one. — Rex Stout

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear?
The few who anything of truth have learned,
And foolishly did not keep truth concealed,
Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed,
Since time began we've crucified and burned — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

How you tell the boys from men. Men know how to get a woman soaking wet without doing a single thing. Boys have to touch and caress with their hands ... real men can make you come with words alone. — Amelia Hutchins

My favorite Wes Anderson movie is 'The Darjeeling Limited,' because I have two other brothers, and I just feel that connection so well. All of his films have something so great and unique about them, that I don't know how I would be if I don't like them. I wouldn't be me. My personality is his sensibility. — Tony Revolori

what is the love of child, or mother, or dog, but the love of God, shining through another being - which is a being just because he shines through it. — George MacDonald