Wachet Auf Quotes & Sayings

Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can. — Simone Elkeles

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot. — Vinny Guadagnino

These Reformation wars involved the biggest population movements in Europe between the 'barbarian' upheavals which dismantled the western Roman Empire and the twentieth century's First and Second World Wars. Hundreds of thousands of people decided to follow the example of the English, quit Europe and brave the terrors of the Atlantic to find a new life in north America. As early as 1662 some of the Duke of Savoy's Waldensian victims in the Alpine valleys took ship for a sympathetic Dutch Reformed colony; they found a new safe home on Stateri Island, amid the great natural haven which would become New York.3 — Diarmaid MacCulloch

President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either. — David Letterman

The best bet you get is an even break. — Franklin P. Adams

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all. — Ricardo Lagos

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We need a plan," I said.
"We are having far too many of those lately for my tastes," Jack said. "I vote Molotov cocktails. That one was fun."
"Much as I like lighting things on fire" - which I kind of had, more than I thought I would - "the goal here is to get everyone out safe. Not to blow them up. — Kiersten White

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism. — Mo Ibrahim

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way. — Tama J. Kieves

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming. — Jay Asher

His eyes have become gentle. I'm swimming in them. — Jandy Nelson

Fatalism is born of the fear of failure, for we all believe that we carry success in our own hands, and we suspect that our hands are weak. — Joseph Conrad

Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. — Oliver Goldsmith

Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail. — Doug Bandow