Uwagi In English Quotes & Sayings

For me to live is Christ and to die is gain
Phillippians 1:21 — Anonymous

Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia." Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen. — Henry A. Kissinger

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — John Updike

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one. — Benjamin Kunkel

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others. — Wole Soyinka

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share. — Mary Wortley Montagu

There were a coupla times when I had had it. And when I'm pushed to the limit, I scream. — Marg Helgenberger

What are you? Stupid? Of course they have a guard. What part of 'You're a prisoner' did you miss? (Delphine) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step. — Rupert Grint