Barbary Quotes

#1. Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

Barack Obama

#2. Half of the castle has, at one point or another, been burned down by a combination of Barbary corsairs, lightning bolts, Napoleon, and smoking in bed.

Neal Stephenson

#3. What happened out there?"
"I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon."
"A dragon," he repeats, scandalized. "Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?

Nenia Campbell

#4. In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.

Lao-Tzu

#5. I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

Liane Holliday Willey

#6. How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

William Shakespeare

#8. All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world

Aristotle.

#9. Promise has 50% chance of happening.
At least always make 2 promises at once.

Toba Beta

#10. Weight-loss drugs are intended to enable patients to lose weight more effectively than diet or exercise alone by: 1. suppressing appetite, 2. increasing feelings of fullness, 3. inhibiting the absorption of fat, or in some cases, 4. increasing the metabolism slightly

N.J. May

#11. Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

Zooey Deschanel

#12. The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Friedrich Schiller

#13. Realistically there is no limit to the possibilities. How does an artist make decisions?

Mike Svob

#14. I didn't have long to wait before she joined me naked and mind-bendingly sexy as usual; rendering me utterly captive and raging to claim her body with the dominating sex I couldn't seem to control when we were together. My ultimate reward and my greatest fear all rolled into one.

Raine Miller

#15. For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Alice Sebold

#16. Bob Sanders wasn't the biggest guy coming out of Erie, Pa., but I don't think anybody would dispute that he was a pretty good player for us.

Kirk Ferentz

#17. Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Hal Higdon

#18. Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.

Swami Dhyan Giten