Byelorussia Quotes

#1. Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

John Hoeven

#2. Already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain. The

Alexandre Dumas

#3. No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

Fulton J. Sheen

#4. She was one of those girls who wasn't entirely convinced that food was necessary for survival - anything more robust than a strawberry yoghurt made her anxious.

Kate Atkinson

#5. Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.

Paulo Coelho

#6. Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

Tessa Dare

#7. The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development.

Grace Lee Boggs

#8. It is time now for us to rise from sleep.

Benedict Of Nursia

#9. Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died.

Terry Pratchett

#10. E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

J.G. Ballard

#11. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

James Joyce

#12. You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.

Dennis Lehane

#13. Nothing compares to the Indianapolis 500.

Mario Andretti

#14. The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

Alice Cooper

#15. Laugh at the night, at the day, at the moon, laugh at the twisted streets of the island, laugh at this clumsy boy who loves you, but when I open my eyes and close them, when my steps go, when my steps return, deny me bread, air, light, spring, but never your laughter for I would die.

Pablo Neruda