Sugarplum Elegy Quotes & Sayings

I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more — Mike Tyson

The freedom-lovers of the world mourn the sad demise of Imam Khomeini. — Ruhollah Khomeini

Never put your trust in men. You will be disappointed. In any situation, ask yourself, "What can I do for myself to overcome the situation". — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul. — Drake

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender — Elizabeth Gilbert

If you're a public figure, people have the right to speculate and gossip. — Katrina Kaif

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. — John Green

Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer. — Edward Hoagland

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces. — Simon Weston

If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father. — Scott McNealy

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast. — Ang Lee

The parable teaches us the object of the union. The branches are for fruit and fruit alone. "Every branch that beareth not fruit He taketh away." The branch needs leaves for the maintenance of its own life, and the perfection of its fruit: the fruit itself it bears to give away to those around. As the believer enters into his calling as a branch, he sees that he has to forget himself, and to live entirely for his fellow-men. To love them, to seek for them, and to save them, Jesus came: for this every branch on the Vine has to live as much as the Vine itself. It is for fruit, much fruit, that the Father has made us one with Jesus. — Andrew Murray

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away. — Kevin Durant

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. — Louis L'Amour

You can't get to the destination if you don't know where you are going. — Lorilee Lippincott