Sjaal Quotes & Sayings

For the last fifty years we've been supporting right-wing governments, and that is a puzzlement to me ... I don't understand what there is in the American character ... that almost automatically, even when we have a liberal President, we support fascist dictatorships or are tolerant towards them. — Michael Parenti

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is. — Pablo Escobar

Just as there are O.K.-words in conversationship so there are O.K.-people to mention in Newstatesmanship. — Stephen Potter

We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine. — Hafsat Abiola

May the sun never set on American baseball. — Harry S. Truman

I tried carrying the weight of the world. But I only have two hands. — Avicii

I felt limp and betrayed, like the skin shed by a terrible animal. It was a relief to be free of the animal, but it seemed to have taken my spirit with it, and everything else it could lay its paws on. — Sylvia Plath

As Raimbaut dragged a dead man along he thought, 'Oh
corpse, I have come rushing here only to be dragged along by the
heels like you. What is this frenzy that drives me, this mania for
battle and for love, when seen from the place where your staring
eyes gaze and your flung-back head knocks over stones? It's that
I think of, oh corpse, it's that you make me think of: but does anything
change? Nothing. No other days exist but these of ours
before the tomb, both for us the living and for you the dead. May
it be granted me not to waste them, not to waste anything of what
I am, of what I could be: to do deeds helpful to the Frankish cause:
to embrace, to be embraced by, proud Bradamante. I hope you
spent your days no worse, oh corpse. Anyway to you the dice have already shown their numbers. For me they are still whirling in the
box. And I love my own disquiet, corpse, not your peace. — Italo Calvino

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him. — Dennis Quaid

A gun doesn't have the brain to hate with, or a finger to pull the trigger, so the problem isn't the gun. — Alan Gottlieb

Trust in your story, it's powerful enough. Oftentimes, it is not the lack of power that is our struggle; but it is our unawareness of the power that we do have, which is our biggest hurdle to surmount. — C. JoyBell C.

When will world leaders learn that you can never obtain peace by using war and aggression. They must find other avenues that will lead humanity to peace. — Timothy Pina

I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado. — Richard Lamm