Szentmiklosi Adalbert Quotes & Sayings

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other. — Shirley Chisholm

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine. — Charles Spurgeon

By learning to see and appreciate beauty, we learn to reject self-interested pragmatism. If someone has not learned to stop and admire something beautiful, we should not be surprised if he or she treats everything as an object to be used and abused without scruple. — Pope Francis

Tonight, I should watch the sun set, and think of the impending darkness as a metaphor for my wasted life: once it was bright, and full of potential, and now it is dark and hopeless and bleak. I should not make the mistake of thinking that the moon and the stars represent slim glimmers of hope, or evidence that there is light on the other side. Even if there is light somewhere I will never walk in it again. — John S. Hall

It's important to realize that we adopt not because we are rescuers. No. We adopt because we are rescued. — David Platt

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods. — Plato

He hugs me tight while I look behind him, scanning faces like I did a few seconds ago. And like I will do for the rest of my life. — Ashley Elston

When someone invests in you, I don't want to disappoint them. I want to be the player they think they're getting. — Logan Mankins

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists. — James Mill

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does? — Philip Johnson

Run like hell and get the agony over with. — Clarence De Mar

In 1865, Scotsman Thomas Sutherland started the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Company (later HSBC). A senior Chinese government official had issued a warrant for future HSBC board member Thomas Dent in 1839, to close his opium warehouses. This helped spark the first Opium War. France's Le Monde Diplomatique said that "HSBC's first wealth came from opium from India, and later Yunan in China." Yunan is in the Golden Triangle area. The first Opium War forced China to cede Shanghai to Western powers, transforming it from a fishing village to China's largest, most modern city with a network of opium smoking dens. Prof. Alfred McCoy would eventually call Hong Kong "Asia's heroin laboratory," and HSBC would become the world's second largest bank. — John L. Potash

Takin' it to ISIS, man!" Blue Jacket thumped his chest twice, and I read the saying on his shirt: Turning ISIS into WASWAS. — Jennifer Lane

What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. — Christopher Fry

Drawing back, and then folding into the shore. Pause, crash. Pause, crash. It made you feel like you were a part of something infinite, looking at the endless waves like that. — Leslie McAdam