Welger Ap730 Quotes & Sayings

The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the desire of the master that his slaves shall be laborious; on the other hand it is the determination of the slave to lead as easy a life as he can. The master has the power of punishment on his side; the slave, on his, has invincible inclination, and a thousand expedients learned by long practice ... Good natured though imperfect and slovenly obedience on one side, is purchased by good treatment on the other. — William C. Bryant

Charles Adams was an amiable, accomplished & bewitching young Man; of so dazzling a Beauty that none but Eagles could look him in the Face. — Jane Austen

I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters. — Charlize Theron

Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles, you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction. — Thornton Wilder

Here, though, there is nothing. Nothing at all. The sky seems empty even when I am looking at the moon and stars. — Edwidge Danticat

He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. He gave himself to it willingly, traded himself for all that he loved and valued, and felt free. — Lois Lowry

IT WASN'T THAT Moore — Tom Clancy

Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success. — Swami Vivekananda

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. — Harold Russell

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me. — Justin Timberlake

You've got to have a deep yearning for the answer if you ever want to truly learn something really well. If something has no value, it's simply not appreciated. — Maxwell Grantly

We fool ourselves

into thinking

we're strong

then complain

the rest of our lives

crippled by

the consequences. — Barry Gifford

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. — Marlene Dietrich

But, I'm a big Johnny Cash and a big Lou Reed fan and a Fellini fan. — Noah Taylor