Skaisto Skatu Quotes & Sayings

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity. — John Ciardi

All around me, the night lived its secret life. — Mary Downing Hahn

People have never had a problem disposing of the past when it gets too difficult. Flesh will burn, photos will burn, and memory, what is that? — Jeanette Winterson

I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict ... " What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies. — Harold Pinter

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true ... — Thomas Paine

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends. — Anna Deavere Smith

Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No woman wants to have fat ankles. — Christian Louboutin

The price of gold was fixed at $35 an ounce in 1934, but by the time the U.S. got through the Korean War, the Vietnam war, with all the associated secular inflation, the price level had gone up nearly three times. — Robert Mundell

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public. — Carolina Herrera

Renew, release, let go. Yesterday's gone. There's nothing you can do to bring it back. You can't "should've" done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day! — Steve Maraboli

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. — Phillips Brooks

I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to. — Maria Semple

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. — David Brin

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say. — Ralph Waldo Emerson