Sleighing It Quotes & Sayings

Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood. — Tara Janzen

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart. — Edna O'Brien

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is. — Abdallah II Of Jordan

The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained. — William Penn

A person who lives only for himself destroys himself. — Sunday Adelaja

At the Kings' she daily saw all she wanted, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bouquets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lavished on trifles which would have been so precious to her. Poor — Louisa May Alcott

Our country is failing to live up to its promise of opportunity and fairness. It used to be true that if you went to college and you worked hard, you could count on having a decent middle-class life - but that's just not true anymore. Economic and political changes that have occurred over the past three decades have made the middle-class American dream for today's twenty- and thirtysomethings far less possible than it was for their parents' generation. It's not that we're lazy, that we have no work ethic, or that we have outrageous spending habits. It's that we've been screwed. — Camille Perri

But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. — Gustave Flaubert

the dream except that there was something about a bird, and even that vague detail was so far lost to his waking mind that only the word itself remained. "Bird." It was not any particular kind of bird, no bird of any particular color or size. It was nothing more significant than something about a bird. And yet this dream filled him with such a profound sense — Brian Harmon

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength, — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Try to not be disappointed in anything. Know that life is showing up perfectly in every moment. Today's disappointment could be tomorrow's springboard to all that you've ever wanted. In fact, it probably is. — Neale Donald Walsch

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. — Grover Norquist

Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines. — D.H. Lawrence