Sunniaffairs Quotes & Sayings

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours. — Isabel Allende

The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry. — W.S. Merwin

If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties. — Benjamin Franklin

When I fall, I fall hard. — Ashley Wagner

We needn't be saddened with the impossible weight of managing the entire biosphere, but we must meet the challenge of living in balance with the sacred elements. — David Suzuki

I'll trade glib for common sense any day. — Steve Wynn

Death of the righteous ... is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God. — Billy Graham

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs. — John Britt Daniel

He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights, wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective. — J.D. Salinger

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens. — Kathryn Stockett

I may say that (Being) love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. it gives him a self-image, it gives him self-acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it. — Abraham Maslow

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed. — Mario Stinger

These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. — John Perkins

A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus. — Ogden Nash

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. — Mary Collyer