Simvola Quotes & Sayings

Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the feet of the horses. The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snowflakes. All that was beautiful in the martial array had disappeared, and what was now visibke was only calculated to awaken terror or compassion. — Walter Scott

I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals — Ann Leckie

Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing. — Eva Kaili

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity. — Hugo Chavez

When searching out a history, sifting through a thousand facts and ten thousand lives, one often uncovers pieces that do not fit. — Julie Berry

If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart. — Grant Von Harrison

The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. — Richard Dawkins

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice. — Anthony Hecht

One doesn't begin to be a Christian because of an ethical decision or a great idea, but rather because of an encounter with an event, with a Person, who gives new horizons to life, and with that, a decisive orientation. — Pope Benedict XVI

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. — Isaac Barrow