Syncia Baptiste Quotes & Sayings

Had Howe pressed on the afternoon of the 27th, the British victory could have been total. Or had the wind turned earlier, and the British navy moved into the East River, the war and the chances of an independent United States of America could have been long delayed, or even ended there and then. — David McCullough

There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about. — Joseph Campbell

Start thinking for yourself, ask 'why?' and even venture to say 'why should I?' and pretty soon you will have half the world at your throat for being a 'trouble maker'. — Christina Engela

I always say that it's not really been a good day if you haven't caused a major diplomatic incident by lunchtime,' Otto said with a grin. — Mark Walden

No child's face is dirty even if it is muddy, because an innocent face has so much light that anything comes onto it becomes almost invisible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. — Peter Kreeft

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship. — Pope Francis

I know by his smile that he's happy. And that's all that matters. — M. Leighton

She's still your mother." Meaning no matter what she's done, how much you don't understand her, you will treat her with respect. She's still your mother. — William Shatner

People write things in newspapers about me that aren't true - or that are true. They take pictures of my kids on the way to school. I get a little bit inured to it in a way that I think most people probably aren't. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it. — Wally Schirra

In general, I feel, or I have come to feel, that the richest writing comes not from the people who dedicate themselves to writing alone. I know this is contradicted again and again but I continue to feel it. They don't, of course, write as much, or as fast, but I think it is riper and more satisfying when it does come. One of the difficulties of writing or doing any kind of creative work in America seems to me to be that we put such stress on production and material results. We put a time pressure and a mass pressure on creative work which are meaningless and infantile in that field. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Pulling back a stray lock of hair, she drew a question mark around her ear. p. 314 — Anthony Marra