Waage K4757 Quotes & Sayings

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character. — Narendra Modi

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one. — Brian Morton

It is not so much being all that we dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering our being. — Sepi

Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent. — Gus Franklin Mutscher

Why the conservatives, who controlled all three branches of the federal government, were still so enraged
at respectful skeptics of the Iraq War, at gay couples who wanted to get married, at bland Al Gore and cautious Hillary Clinton, at endangered species and their advocates, at taxes and gas prices that were among the lowest of any industrialized nation, at a mainstream media whose corporate owners were themselves conservatives, at the Mexicans who cut their grass and washed their dishes
was somewhat mysterious to Walter. — Jonathan Franzen

Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked. Take the most beautiful person in the solar system, zoom in on them at the right magnification and they were an apocalyptic cratered landscape crawling with horrors. That's what the Earth was. A shining jewel from space, up close a blasted landscape covered with mites living by devouring the dying. "One ticket to New York," he said to the automated kiosk. — James S.A. Corey

I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It's almost like a spa for the parents where you drop your kids off, where they give you a beautifully baked thing and let the parents write their own newsletter about global warming. — Sandra Tsing Loh

I'm soooooo greedy. Is that wrong? — Miyoshi Toumori

You cannot defeat your enemies until you know who they are. — Anthony Horowitz

Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot. — Ryan Lewis

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. — Albert Schweitzer

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream. — Joan Didion

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special. — Stefan Edberg

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary. — Robert Musil

Let us ask whether medicine is winning the war against death. The answer is obviously no, it isn't winning: the one fundamental rule of human existence remains, unfortunately, one man one death. — Theodore Dalrymple