Brigadier Gerard Quotes

#1. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

Francisco Goya

#2. Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

Angela Merkel

#3. We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Charles Handy

#4. My home was in darkness and my companions were shadows beckoning to me from a glass

Anna Kavan

#5. I can see why fans don't like to watch pro basketball. I don't, either. It's not exciting.

Larry Bird

#6. Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

Dean Koontz

#7. Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

Allan Massie

#8. If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

Freddie Mercury

#9. The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

Lord Byron

#11. Father, I want to know Thee, but my coward heart fears to give up its toys.

A.W. Tozer

#12. The constitution has thus ended up not as Japan's ultimate governing legal document, but in the grand political Japanese tradition as a somewhat blurred and compromised token of legitimacy, hoisted about erratically like a portable shrine by competing contenders for power.

R. Taggart Murphy

#13. Tottered through the forest, sitting down often to rest, what of weakness and of shortness of breath. One day While Fang encountered a young wolf, gaunt and scrawny, loose-jointed with famine. Had he not been hungry himself, White Fang might have gone with him and

Jack London

#14. Nathaniel Philbrick's 'In the Heart of the Sea' has rightfully taken its place as a classic for its literary merits. It has a special place in the cannibalism canon as well.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#15. Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.

Robin Sharma