Xlviii Translation Quotes & Sayings

We make destiny with every turn, every choice. — Nora Roberts

The black church will accept anybody. — James McBride

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. — Robert A. Heinlein

My voice is an instrument. — David Coverdale

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze," I remembered. "The dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise. We raised a lot of the dead. We saved Ethan Nakamura, who turned out to be a traitor. We raised the spirit of Pan, the lost one." Annabeth shook her head like she wanted me to stop. "You shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand," I pressed on. "That wasn't Minos, like I'd thought. It was Nico. By choosing to be on our side, he saved us. And the child of Athena's final stand - that was Daedalus." "Percy - " "Destroy with a hero's final breath. That makes sense now. Daedalus died to destroy the Labyrinth. But what was the last - " "And lose a love to worse than death." Annabeth — Rick Riordan

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to. — Mary Gaitskill

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan. — Erna Paris

I felt like observing my way out of there, but I didn't. — Alice Sebold

When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes. — Nicole Miller

What can go wrong will go wrong. — Ozzy Osbourne

Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance. — Abel Bonnard

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it betrays in those affected by it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, since they would otherwise not grasp at something that they share with so many millions. Rather those who possess significant personal qualities will recognize most clearly the faults of their own nation, since they constantly have them in front of them. — Arthur Schopenhauer