Gordian Iii Quotes

#1. Hitler was good in the beginning, but he went too far.

Marge Schott

#2. He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

Barack Obama

#3. I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Bill Engvall

#4. You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

Miyamoto Musashi

#5. Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

Yoshida Kenko

#6. It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

Rumi

#7. Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

Gene Wolfe

#8. There's no moment in which congregations aren't embodying values that children readily absorb.

Erika Hewitt

#9. Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Sydney J. Harris

#10. I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

Keith Barry

#11. It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his greatest satisfaction. But writing is a means of communication. It is not enough to speak; you must also be heard. The message must be received and understood.

Christopher Milne

#12. Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.

Sathya Sai Baba

#13. There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."

Edwidge Danticat

#14. You said "Is THIS the behaviour of a leader of men?" What do you mean? Are you asking me if leaders have consensual sex with their long-term monogamous partners? Yes. They do. Are you asking, are leaders ever betrayed? Yes. All the time.

Robin York

#15. The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.

Bartolome De Las Casas