Valantos Quotes & Sayings

Although few people will remember 3 June 1993, it was a landmark in South African history. On that day, after months of negotiations at the World Trade Centre, the multiparty forum voted to set a date for the country's first national, nonracial, one-person-one-vote election: 27 April 1994. For the first time in South African history, the black majority would go to the polls to elect their own leaders. — Nelson Mandela

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. — Arnold Palmer

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. — Ambrose Bierce

Some stories are easy to follow, and easy to tell. There is an introduction, a twist, and a happily-ever-after. And when telling the story, everyone forgets those small details, like that one quiet morning when the two of you woke wake up with the sunrise and talked about cookies. Or that night when she had her period, and the cramps were killing her, and she just needed your hug and something warm. — Andrea Tomic

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things. — Aeschylus

But Holly the gun-toting, wild-haired madwoman of the night before was in there somewhere, I knew. It made me look upon her with fond affection. — Jonathan Stroud

I felt simultaneously wonderful and wretched, and didn't know from moment to moment which feeling was uppermost. — Diana Gabaldon

If, at some future point, my face collapses around my eyes, I'd probably do something about it. My eyes are where I live, and if people couldn't see them, no one would know me. — Heidi Julavits

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it. — Paul Johnson

She talked back, but he didn't understand her raven language of harsh caws and soft croaks. — Audrey Niffenegger

At eighteen Katharine had decided there was dignity in loneliness. In time the ideas had become synonymous in her mind, believing in the distance created between people, one could never be foolish.
"You can always come back," Siobhan said, "if the dark starts to frighten you."
But Katharine knew that wasn't true. — Deborah Valentine

He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living things, funnily enough. — Adam P. Knave

Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - — Kate Chopin

Apparently, there was even a meme created already. The incredibly photogenic glowing-alien meme. — Jennifer L. Armentrout