I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.
Inspiring Growing Up Quotes for Every Stage of Life - page 115
Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
Brent Scowcroft
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
Otto von Bismarck
The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They, indeed, are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them.
Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.
Feargal Quinn
Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.
No sausage?" he asked. Apparently my pork consumption habits were a matter of public record.
Maureen Johnson
Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!
Anna Paquin
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Mos Def
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore
Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.
Denis Diderot
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius
William Crashaw
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.
Yuichiro Miura
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
