Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you’d be okay.
JOJO MOYESThe only thing they recognize is a buffet
More Bobby H. Barbee, Sr. Quotes
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Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.
BRIAN JACQUES -
To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t.
PRIMO LEVI -
Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO -
Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
GEORGE ELIOT -
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
JOSEPH CONRAD -
Nothing is more important than to war on war.
POPE LEO XIII -
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
RACHEL CARSON -
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATES -
I just have a crazy sense of humor.
DERRICK LEWIS -
Does anyone really know where they’re going to?
DENIS DIDEROT -
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.
BRANDER MATTHEWS -
To win in life you must first be winning in your mind.
LAURA CLEGG -
Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE -
We understood that politics is nothing but war without bloodshed and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed.
FRED HAMPTON