Voa Of America Quotes & Sayings

I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Eric Greitens

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a Third World citizen, I always feel that I need to express my point of view. Sometimes the points of view of Third World countries are never expressed. We don't have that possibility, sometimes, to spread what we feel and how we see things. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual. — Charles Spurgeon

When you are able to affix yourself somehow, to bridge the abyss with a relationship with another creature of any sort, it's easier to make the case that there is some way in which the whole of creation matters, that it has, if not a purpose, at least an invigorating vitality. — Nathanael Johnson

I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music. — Kendall Schmidt

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. — Rene Denfeld

I had a mink, and I had money and I was miserable. — Kay Arthur

The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement, i'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the fourth amendment. — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

The idea was that while one person wrote code, the other programmer would massage his or her shoulders; then they would switch. — Nick Bilton

To prohibit a great people, however, from making all that they can of every part of their own produce, or from employing their stock and industry in the way that they judge most advantageous to themselves, is a manifest violation of the most sacred rights of mankind. — Adam Smith