Testamento Quotes & Sayings

His first word, his first day at junior high. Nonsense things, the deepest, most important poetry of my life. — Sebastian Barry

Somehow, the knowledge that he would rather be here and facing a dragon than back on Privet Drive with Dudley was good to know; it made him feel slightly calmer. — J.K. Rowling

When you're working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success. — Travis Bradberry

On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry. — Roberto Bolano

Our government, conceived in liberty and purchased with blood, can be preserved only by constant vigilance. May we guard it as our children's richest legacy, for what shall it profit our nation if it shall gain the whole world and lose "the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere"? — William Jennings Bryan

There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all. — Christopher Hitchens

The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred. — Pope John Paul II

There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers. — Michael Wilbon

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it. — Mitch Landrieu

Little by litter life returned to normal. The barbed wire which fenced us in did not cause us any real fear. We even thought ourselves rather well off; we were entirely self-contained. A little Jewish republic ... We appointed a Jewish Council, a Jewish police, an office for social assistance, a labor committee, a hygiene department - a whole government machinery.
Everyone marveled at it. We should no longer have before our eyes those hostile faces, those hate-laden stares. Our fear and anguish were at an end. We were living among Jews, among brothers. — Elie Wiesel

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules. — Pat Conroy

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Forgetting people you love is impossible. It'd be like forgetting how to breathe. — Natalie Lloyd