Silverado Quotes & Sayings

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. — Ruben Blades

Making money is one thing, paying tax is another. — Habeeb Akande

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power. — John Milton

In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was simply that I knew, or had known, precisely why he did not love all his children equally. Differentiation, variation, appreciation of the unique: this was part of what he was. His children were not the same, so his feelings toward each were not the same. He loved us all, but differently. And because he did this, because he did not pretend that love was fair or equal, mortals could mate for an afternoon or for the rest of their lives. Mothers could tell their twins or triplets apart. Children could have crushes and outgrow them; elders could remain devoted to their spouses long after beauty had gone. The mortal heart was fickle. Naha made it so. And because of this, they were free to love as they wished, and not solely by the dictates of instinct or power or tradition. — N.K. Jemisin

I'm a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4x4 Silverado diesel truck. I've got a farm. — Jason McCoy

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone. — Marcus Aurelius

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs. — Edsger Dijkstra

I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens. — Urijah Faber

Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique ... If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born.
Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78 — Martin Buber

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. — La Monte Young