Virginius Affair Quotes & Sayings

My wealth is health and perfect ease; My conscience clear my chief defence; I neither seek by bribes to please, Nor by deceit to breed offence. Thus do I live; thus will I die. Would all did so well as I! — Edward Dyer

I still have that new senator smell. — Cory Booker

She dressed in bohemian clothes, penned novels, panted, and yearned to roam forgotten corners of the world. She was habitually defiant and fearless, and when she felt controlled, as she often did, she could be irresistibly willfull. Mostly, she was bored silly by the vanilla sort boys who trailed her around, and by the stodgy set in Miami Beach. — Laura Hillenbrand

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. — Lucien Smith

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful. — Winston Churchill

With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built. — Cal Thomas

It wasn't a passing shower but a steady drumbeat of water, the kind of rain that settles in, puts its feet up and makes it clear that it's not going to leave. — Benedict Jacka

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don't know. But we all need something to believe in. — John-Talmage Mathis

Oversimplifying is the first grave mistake we make when confronted by complexity; overconfidence is the second. And there is a third: based on our overconfidence in our oversimplified conclusions, we overreact. — Ted Cadsby

That's why I should drive the bulldozer," Desi said. "Brains, beauty, and pizza. — Nora Olsen

Our intention - what we desire, focus on, and think about - creates our reality. — Louise Johnson

I hate, hate Times Square! — Elena Roger

PISTOL-
Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys? Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French What is his name.
Boy-
Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?
French Soldier-
Monsieur le Fer.
Boy-
He says his name is Master Fer.
PISTOL-
Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him: discuss the same in French unto him.
Boy-
I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk. — William Shakespeare