Venceu Premio Quotes & Sayings

If the ghost that haunts the towns of Ypres and Arras and Albert is the staturory British Tommy, slogging with rifle and pack through its ruined streets to this well-documented destiny 'up the line', then the ghost of Boulogne and Etaples and Rouen ought to be a girl. She's called Elsie or Gladys or Dorothy, her ankles are swollen, her feet are aching, her hands reddened and rough. She has little money, no vote, and has almost forgotten what it feels like to be really warm. She sleeps in a tent. Unless she has told a diplomatic lie about her age, she is twenty-three. She is the daughter of a clergyman, a lawyer or a prosperous businessman, and has been privately educated and groomed to be a 'lady'. She wears the unbecoming outdoor uniform of a VAD or an army nurse. She is on active service, and as much a part of the war as Tommy Atkins. — Lyn Macdonald

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends. — Tariq Ramadan

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that. — Elie Wiesel

The life of a Wu is to raise, protect and nurture that spirit. The spirit has been gifted to us, to understand it, to commune with it. We are the fathers and mothers of the spirit. Everything we do must be to honour that gift. We can harm the spirit, abuse it, treat it as a slave, we can even kill it though we would die too, but this is not our way. — G.R. Matthews

That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself. — Anita Brookner

There is real comfort in being quiet. — Justina Chen

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego. — Frederick Lenz

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. — Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. — Iain Banks

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do. — George Martin

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy — Louise Fitzhugh

Jeff Sessions is the lone voice in the Senate ... — Rush Limbaugh

Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer. — Alois Podhajsky

I defend the right of almost everything to be published ... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision. — Christie Hefner