Alexei Rykov Quotes

#1. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

#2. When I read books, I actually really love imagining whomever I want to in the character's role. I get such vivid pictures on my own that that is a big part of the experience for me.

Kristin Gore

#3. Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They're merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.

Felix Alexander

#4. Miz Fitz,
If my boyfriend would just once say "I'm sorry, I was wrong," I think I would die and go to heaven.
-Hellbound, a Lass
Miz Fitz sez:
You should wish for something realistic, like world peace.

Pete Hautman

#5. You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

Myles Munroe

#6. I don't know about this here eternal marriage business. But it seems to me that if you can't live with the sons-of-bitches on earth the Lord won't force you to remain with them in heaven.

J. Golden Kimball

#7. Love the way God has created you.

Carlos Luis

#8. My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.

Donna Air

#9. According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

Michel Chossudovsky

#10. I'll offer you the possibility that I'm wrong only if I'm fairly sure I'm right.

Anonymous

#11. Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.

Hsuan Hua

#12. With flowing tail and flying mane,
Wide nostrils never stretched by pain,
Mouth bloodless to bit or rein,
And feet that iron never shod,
And flanks unscar'd by spur or rod,
A thousand horses - the wild - the free -
Like waves that follow o'er the sea,
Came thickly thundering on.

Lord Byron

#13. If you drive fast enough on a rough road you glide over the bumps and skim the pot holes - it's a smooth ride. If you charge without fear over boulders and beach debris it's the same as running on hard flat sand. The only problem is slowing down, or stopping.

Matt Padwick

#14. Words can be as irrevocable as an action. They can cut as deeply as a surgeon's scalpel.

Gina Barreca

#15. That guy should be in porn films." Barclay frowned. "Why's that then, Allan?" Ward looked at him. "Tell me, Tam, when did you last see a bigger prick?

Ian Rankin