Tulpina Copacului Quotes & Sayings

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy. — Christina Stead

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them. — Richard Ben-Veniste

He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him ... " he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, "that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you."
"That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion."
"Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I felt that he was a captive of financial and sentimental commitments, like every other man I know, and that he was no more free to fall in love with a strange woman he saw on a street corner than he was to take a walking trip through French Guiana or to recommence his life in Chicago under an assumed name. — John Cheever

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. — George Foreman

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. — Robert Browning

Things a mother should know: how to comfort a son without exactly saying Daddy was wrong. — Katharine Whitehorn

We can't always follow our hearts, no matter how good our intentions are. Sometimes, whether we like it or not, we just have to do whatever's necessary to keep ourselves going. — Kevin Brooks

In the last round I was so wiped-out that for the first time in my life I tried to get disqualified. He was throwing punches non-stop and he was dangerous with those shots and becoming a little bit too cute for my liking. I backed to the ropes and catapulted off them and nutted him. — Stephen Richards

ESPN is a very, very good operation, and it's a gold mine. It's an even bigger gold mine than Fox News. — Rupert Murdoch

When I was praised for my conduct I felt a guilt that in some way I was doing something that was really against the wishes of the white folks, that if they had understood they would have desired me to act just the opposite, that I should have been sulky and mean, and that that really would have been what they wanted, even though they were fooled and thought they wanted me to act as I did. It made me afraid that some day they would look upon me as a traitor and I would be lost. Still I was more afraid to act any other way because they didn't like that at all. — Ralph Ellison

I look very different on camera compared with how I do in real life. On camera, I look my best when everything is enhanced, especially my eyes - I like a smoky eye. In real life, I like myself best in tinted moisturiser, lip balm and mascara. — Martine McCutcheon

Someone else's body is a place for your mind to go. — Jenny Holzer

Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson. — Douglas Alexander

Never been there, the Middle East," Qatar said vaguely. — John Sandford