Tiospa Quotes & Sayings

Another thing they talk about a lot is water - and that's a very crucial thing, which is not discussed very much in the United States but it's probably the main reason why Israel is never going to give up the West Bank. See, this is a very arid region, so water is more important than oil, and there are very limited water resources in Israel. In fact, a lot of the wars in the Middle East have been about water - for instance, the wars involving Israel and Syria have usually been about the headwaters of the Jordan, which come from Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. And as a matter of fact, one of the main reasons why Israel is holding on to the so-called "Security Zone" it seized in southern Lebanon [in the 1982 invasion] is that that area includes a mountain, Mount Hermon, which is a big part of the watershed that brings water to the region. — Noam Chomsky

I couldn't trust you with it. To do something with it. I don't want anybody talking about me. To say where I was or what I said when I was there. I mean, you could talk about me maybe. But nobody could say that it was me. I could be anybody. I think in times like these the less said the better. If something had happened and we were survivors and we met on the road then we'd have something to talk about. But we're not. So we don't. — Cormac McCarthy

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. — Philip Treacy

I don't know about you,
but for me ... to be honest,
I would prioritize myself,
before helping other people. — Toba Beta

People want to see me back in the ring. I think it is more of a drag lying around on the beach. — Lennox Lewis

Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence. — Graham Hill

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle. — Jane Porter

Normally I miss deadlines like a storm trooper misses Jedi. — Patrick Rothfuss

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess. — H.L. Mencken

Had a memory that he himself had once compared to the Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly, in that it was colorful, flitted prettily hither and thither, and was — Douglas Adams

She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true ... she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. — Willa Cather

Now, I have a Halloween mask I think you might get a kick out of. That's scary. — Jay Leno

But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects which dissented from the catholic church were afflicted and oppressed by the triumph of Christianity. Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and criminal obstinacy; and that a seasonable application of moderate severities might save those unhappy men from the danger of an everlasting condemnation. — Edward Gibbon

Every one wants to be a Genius. But only the brave choose to go mad to get there ... — Stanley Victor Paskavich