Smh Historical Quotes & Sayings

In my experience, eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles. — George R R Martin

I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend. — Francisco Goya

I was really good at manicures, facials and make-up. — Rebecca Ferguson

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else. — Elliott Smith

Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it. — Brian Tracy

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift. — Jim Henson

Do you want to know something from the beyond? Do you want to chat with divine beings face to face? It is indispensable to enter into the region of the dead at will, to visit the celestial regions, to know other worlds of the infinite space. Outside of the physical body, one can give to himself the luxury of invoking beloved relatives who already passed through the doors of death. They will concur to our call, then we can personally chat with them ... When out of the physical body, we can acquire complete knowledge about the mysteries of death and life. Out of the physical body, we can invoke the angels in order to talk personally with them face to face. — Samael Aun Weor

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves. — Patrick Leahy

Holmes cast himself as a demanding contractor. As workers came to him for their wages, he berated them for doing shoddy work and refused to pay them, even if the work was perfect. They quit, or he fired them. He recruited others to replace them and treated these workers the same way. Construction proceeded slowly, but at a fraction of the proper cost. The high rate of turnover had the corollary benefit of keeping to a minimum the number of individuals who understood the building's secrets. A — Erik Larson

Sweet Jesus.
It was The Delicious in the dark shirt and jeans. — Julie James

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you. — Carolyn Hax

So what was in this building before historical materialism?'
'Before what?'
'You know, back then, under the old regime?'
'Oh. Under the old regime my master lived here.'
'A bourgeois?'
'You're a bourgeois yourself! He wasn't a bourgeois. He was a marshal of the nobility.'
'So he was a proletarian, then?'
'You're a proletarian yourself! I told you loud and clear, a marshal.'
The conversation with the clever dvornik with a vague understanding of the class structure of society would have lasted god knows how long if the young man hadn't made a decisive move. — Ilya Ilf

Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain — Jim Croce

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor! — Sam Keen

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know. — Estelle

Religions do good when they make peace on earth. — Toba Beta