Elissa Melamed Quotes

#1. Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Bruce Beresford

#2. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle.

#3. You pray and pray and pray and nothing changes, like for example I prayed for a real house and good clothes and a bicycle and things for a long, long, time, and none of it happened, not even one little thing, which is how I know that all this praying for Father is just people playing.

NoViolet Bulawayo

#4. commandments and

Anonymous

#5. Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

#6. False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Thomas Otway

#7. By the close of summer, with increasing losses from disease, desertions, and absences of one sort or other, his army was in serious decline. Spirits suffered. The patriotic fervor that had sent thousands rushing to the scene in late April and May was hardly evident any longer.

David McCullough

#8. Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#9. The lady doth protest too much, methinks.'

Lynn Cullen

#10. Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

Tina Brown

#11. The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

Frederick Buechner

#12. [C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Truman Capote

#13. Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.

Myles Munroe