Washboard Scholarships Quotes & Sayings

That there is in this world neither brains, nor goodness, nor good sense, but only brute force. Bloodshed. Starvation. Death. That there was not the slightest hope not even a glimmer of hope, of justice being done. It would never happen. No one would ever do it. The world was just one big Babi Yar. And there two great forces had come up against each other and were striking against each other like hammer and anvil, and the wretched people were in between, with no way out; each individual wanted only to live and not be maltreated, to have something to eat, and yet they howled and screamed and in their fear they were grabbing at each other's throats, while I, little blob of watery jelly, was sitting in the midst of this dark world. Why? What for? Who had done it all? There was nothing, after all, to hope for! Winter. Night. — A. Anatoli Kuznetsov

In the early days, I really felt the pain of not being able to find information easily. I guess that helped me to develop an urge to write things like a search engine. — Robin Li

Fortunately, we are not in control. — Willie Nelson

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. — Elizabeth Ashley

Angry at being angry - there's a worm that will eat its tail and no mistake. I should have Oroborus on my family crest. — Mark Lawrence

I have a bird. Inside." She patted the flat stomach below her small breasts, and for a moment Nicholas thought she had really found food. "She sits in here. She has tangled a nest in my entrails, where she sits and tears at my breath with her beak. I look healthy to you, don't I? But inside I'm hollow and rotten and turning brown, dirt and old feathers, oozing away. Her beak will break through soon. — Gene Wolfe

Through hard work and responsible approach you achieve your goals — Sunday Adelaja

It's not just a miracle; it's a miracle with chocolate. Best kind. — Rachel Caine

The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory. — John Piper

The kundalini runs through you. It runs through the ida and the pingala, the two nerve channels in the subtle body; but there's a central channel, the shushumna, which is blocked. When it runs through that, then you can use the mystical kundalini. — Frederick Lenz

In the 16th century,parks and gardens were models of the cosmos and also tools for altering one's consciousness, possibly for changing one's destiny. — Linda Lappin

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him. — Aeschylus

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see. — Georges St-Pierre

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. — Blaise Pascal

When a woman gets married it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days. — Maxim Gorky