Festus Mogae Quotes

#1. I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.

Walter Russell

#2. This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak - the sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel, or of bread-winning.

Joseph Conrad

#3. Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher..

Patti Davis

#4. This is the place of places and and it is here.

Gertrude Stein

#5. The point is, if you treat reality like a game, it's going to show in your decisions.

Karl Schroeder

#6. First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.

Kenneth Eade

#7. I think there simply comes a point at which you're beating your head against the wall with revision, when you're making something different but not better. For me, revision usually has more to do with making the language prettier, finding clearer images, using more active verbs.

Mary J. Miller

#8. So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Brit Marling

#9. A master of origami said he tried to express with paper the joy of life, and the last thought before a man dies.

Tor Udall

#10. If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Cardinal Richelieu

#11. I hear people say, "It happened for a reason," or "It's part of God's plan," and I wish that made sense to me but it doesn't.

Mary-Louise Parker

#12. We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Bob Menendez

#13. I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

Tom Hiddleston

#14. She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

John Corey Whaley

#15. People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does.

Alexia Casale