Usamah Ibn Munqidh Quotes & Sayings

You don't ask people to sacrifice their lives until the nation has debated and committed to the mission. It's immoral. — Tim Kaine

If I had been thinking, I would have stopped. A dom should never, ever have an ounce of anger in his heart when spanking a sub. That wasn't fun. That wasn't all right. — C.D. Reiss

Germans today keep their waste more thoroughly separated than their races. — Timur Vermes

He that is low need fear no fall. — Charlotte Bronte

The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media. — Stephen Harper

The purpose of all relationships is to create a sacred context
within which you can express the fullness of who you are.
And who you are is an experience you have before
you enter relationship, not because you did. — Neale Donald Walsch

I do not know who I am anymore. I though I was animal. I am no longer so sure. It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the highest regard. Like the body, it struggles to repair itself. As cells fight off infection and conquer illness, the spirit too has remarkable resilience. It knows when it is harmed, and it knows when the harm is too much to bear. If it deems the injury too great the spirit cocoons the wound, in the same fashion that the body forms a cyst around infection, until the time comes that it can deal with it. For some people that time never comes. Some stay fractured, forever broken. You see them on the street pushing carts, you see them in the faces of regulars at a bar. My cocoon was that room. — Karen Marie Moning

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. — James Whistler

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state. — Martin McGuinness

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion. — Eli Whitney

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help. — Morgan Freeman