Wunnerful Bandleader Quotes & Sayings

He never did anything to me it's true, but I once played a most shameless nasty trick on him, and the moment I did it, I immediately hated him for it. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become perfect, when there will be no disease, nor death, nor unhappiness, nor wickedness. That is a very good idea, a very good motive power to inspire and uplift the ignorant. But if we think for a moment, we shall find on the very face of it that it cannot be so. How can it be, seeing that good and evil are the obverse and reverse of the same coin? How can you have good without evil at the same time? — Swami Vivekananda

Quite rightly, the public expects to see forces serving their communities, not chasing arbitrary targets. — Theresa May

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash. — John Berger

This is a dandelion, " I told him. He shrugged. "I know. Some see a weed; some see a flower. Perspective. — Kiera Cass

Father Alfonso and Father Octavio could make Pepe feel as if he were a betrayer of the Catholic faith - as if he were a raving secular humanist, or worse. (Could there be anyone worse, from a Jesuitical perspective?) Father Alfonso and Father Octavio knew their Catholic dogma by rote; while the two priests talked circles around Brother Pepe, and they made Pepe feel inadequate in his belief, they were irreparably doctrinaire. — John Irving

It took us 6 years to get the right weapons to fight BokoHaram ... — Goodluck Jonathan

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled. — Dave Foley

The lake is always east. East is always the lake. Anywhere else he's ever been he never knows where he is. — Peter Orner

I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things ... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it. — Nikki Sixx

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. — Michael Jordan