Teshome Mebatsion Quotes & Sayings

At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and compulsory cap and - if I'd done well enough to earn the honour in last week's test - with a First World War medal on a striped ribbon pinned to my brown blazer. I must have looked like a chocolate soldier. — Ronald Frame

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold. — Henry David Thoreau

A smart soldier wants to know the causes of wars. Also how to end them. After all, war is the normal state of affairs, isn't it? Peace is the name of the ideal we deduce from the fact that there have been interludes between wars. — Jerry Pournelle

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down. — Miranda Lambert

Happiness should never be an option. it should always be the product of every endeavor, achieved or otherwise. — Jawe Querimit

I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!' — Julia Ormond

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. — Thomas S. Monson

He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them. — Michael Chabon