Szpilman Family Quotes & Sayings

Its authors meant it to be ... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack. — Abraham Lincoln

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. — Seamus Heaney

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord. — Pat Robertson

Anybody can fail. — M.G. Hardie

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance. — Victoria Justice

Assigned seating. I curse you. — Krista Ritchie

Before this amazing journey began i'd never set foot outside of Canada. Now I've traveled the world and seen so many amazing things. In that sense, my story is something I like to share with others to show that anything is possible. — Justin Bieber

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life. — George Eliot

Mr. Denham cursed himself very sharply for having exchanged the freedom of the street for this sophisticated drawing-room, — Virginia Woolf

His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore drinking sherry out of a coffee cup. — John Cheever

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news — Dan Brown

He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition. — Rachel Joyce

To those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know. — P. McCree Thornton

Only secrets can be conquered'- most of all the secrets that lie within ourselves. — Bernadette McDonald