Speculums With Light Quotes & Sayings

For Liza, a greeting is an opportunity to make new friends. For me, it's yet more people I'll have to avoid. — Ariel Leve

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links. — William Manchester

You cannot lose if you have learned one new lesson.
You cannot lose if you have helped one new person.
You cannot lose if you have overcome one new obstacle. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror. — Jimmy Webb

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew. — Theodore Bikel

You're wondering if I really would slit your throat. To tell the truth, I don't know either, but think of the fun we could have finding out. — Terry Pratchett

THE RUSSIAN INVASION BEGAN A WEEK LATER, WITH A SPATE OF flights producing what NASA described as "mixed results" and Roskosmos termed "an acceptable fatality rate. — Neal Stephenson

You have to believe in magic to see it. — Leah Blundell

Classical education was based on the seven liberal arts or sciences: grammar, the formal structures of language; rhetoric, composition and presentation of argument; dialectic, formal logic; arithmetic; geometry; music; astronomy.14 For centuries, the classics dominated the very idea of being educated and attempts at reform were resisted. — Ken Robinson

The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys ... Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count. — Maureen Dowd

There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ. — Brooke Westcott

Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened, - as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The UK population became, for lack of a better term, Balkanized. And then all of a sudden Sharia mosques started popping up all over the place. And before you knew it, the most popular or frequent male baby name was Mohammed. — Rush Limbaugh

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse. — Elizabeth Bear