Velina Davenport Quotes & Sayings

As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad. — Vladimir Putin

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. — Aldous Huxley

I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?' — L'Wren Scott

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one. — Karl A. Menninger

Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced. — Xavier Becerra

Competition reveals the competent. — Jeffrey Fry

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint — Brent Weeks

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you. — Roger Federer

The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products. — John Berendt

The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse ... You could see yourself in it ... while the wind, the light, the swaying, the sound of the water on the hull worked the miracle of distancing, calming you until you didn't hurt anymore, erasing any pity, any wound, and any remorse. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

Still, there will be a connection with the long past - a reference to forgotten events and personages, and to manners, feelings, and opinions, almost or wholly obsolete - which, if adequately translated to the reader, would serve to illustrate how much of old material goes to make up the freshest novelty of human life. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given ... " she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, " ... I hold in an open hand. — Jacqueline Carey

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. — Sarah Dessen

BENEVOLENCE - When the sobbing of SELF PITY crosses over into the WEEPING FOR MANKIND — Kamil Ali