Urquia South Quotes & Sayings

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar. — Henry Morton Stanley

And you, Tacitus,
observe how I make my grove
on an old crannog
piled by the fearful dead:

a desolate peace.
Our mother ground
in sour with the blood
of her faithful,

they lie gargling
in her sacred heart
as the legions stare
from the ramparts.

Come back to this
'island of the ocean'
where nothing will suffice.
Read the inhumed faces

of casualty and victim;
report us fairly,
how we slaughter
for the common good

and shave the heads
of the notorious,
how the goddess swallows
our love and terror.
- Kinship — Seamus Heaney

People for the most part can smell lies. — Joe Rogan

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left. — Sherman Austin

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle

People ask me if I could fly, I said, 'yeah ... ' for a little while. — Michael Jordan

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. — Ernest Hemingway,

Listen. I don't know how or when

My grieving will end, but I'm always
Relearning how to be human again. — Sherman Alexie

Her personality was charming to those she loved, and repellent to those she didn't — Jamie McGuire

Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

As fear approaches in the night,
Flee from the field and hide from sight.
The power stirs, the anger wakes,
The rage upon the darkness breaks,
A fearful lesson, learned full well,
A tale that they alone can tell. — Emily Rodda

Soda was glaring at him. Leave my kid brother alone, you hear? It ain't his fault he likes to go to the movies, and it ain't his fault the Socs like to jump us, and if he had been carrying a blade it would have been a good excuse to cut him to ribbons. — S.E. Hinton

By approaching everything with a sense of suspicion and struggle, we like to think we're in control of things. But in truth our past karma is simply playing itself out. Instead of struggling with it, however, we can choose to dance. — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' — John Legend

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. — David Hanson