William Barak Quotes & Sayings

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. — Harold Holzer

I think the fact that father is running now as opposed to in 2012 where he didn't that he's had enough faith in myself and my siblings to be able to run the company.We've got tens of thousands of people that are under his direct employ. Those people, he wouldn't leave a company and leave those people and their lives and everything they've put into it at risk if he didn't think there was competent leadership to take over after him. — Sean Hannity

Writing well means never having to say, I guess you had to be there. — Jef Mallett

He was still where he had always been. Just hoping. — James T. Farrell

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. — Eugene O'Neill

Living a hard life with niggas whose loyalty was only for the streets, and never for a woman, was embedded in me. — Jessica N. Watkins

That's still the best reading experience: falling in love with a book I meet by accident. — Alice Hoffman

Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals. — Albert Camus

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man. — Kate Morton

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. — Dante Alighieri

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property. — Theodore Roosevelt

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.
[Addressing the dead Hellenes of the Battle of Chaeronea] — Alexander The Great

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine. — Idries Shah

If you are not the best, then pretend you are — Muhammad Ali