Xandros Linux Quotes & Sayings

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward. — William Shakespeare

With the fascination of a condemned man watching the carpenter build the gallows. — Ken Follett

The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it. — Louis Simpson

The sun is rising. Let us feel the glint of light in the heart so that we can see and enjoy the magnificence of life. — Debasish Mridha

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? — Hunter S. Thompson

No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any — Friedrich Nietzsche

I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street. — Noel Clarke

If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy. — Boris Johnson

Correspondence, which bears much the same relation to personal intercourse that the books of dried plats I sometimes see do to the living and fresh flowers in the lanes and meadows. — Elizabeth Gaskell

[On George H.W. Bush:] A man who wishes to lead the Western world should be able to find the right words, string them together in coherent sentences, and steer them to an intelligible conclusion. His sentences have the stuttering start of an old car on a cold morning. They never run smoothly. The only speech part that he has mastered completely is the non sequitur. — Mary McGrory