Wise Wordse Words Quotes & Sayings

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind ... for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour. — Fanny Crosby

I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now. — Barack Obama

Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero. — Marquis De Lafayette

I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing. — Dick Van Dyke

Suffering makes the soul search spirit. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gaston Boissier, who wrote in the mid-nineteenth century what is still one of the most charming and witty books on Cicero, observed: He always belonged to the best party [i.e., the optimates] ... only he made it a rule not to serve his party; he was contented with giving it his good wishes. But these good wishes were the warmest imaginable. ... His reserve only began when it was necessary to act. ... The more we think about it, the less we can imagine the reasons he could give [his friends] to justify his conduct. — Anthony Everitt