Kulinda Rollins Quotes

#1. That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.

Joseph Roth

#2. Though hand-to-hand combat has become rare, much modern warfare continues to involve physical strain such as those who have not engaged in it can scarcely imagine.

Martin Van Creveld

#3. It is not how much we do, but how much we love.

Thomas Watson

#4. People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

Idries Shah

#5. There was an old joke - it's not the fall that kills you but the abrupt stop.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#6. A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Julia Alvarez

#7. In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress believed we could spend our way to prosperity, and I guess they still do.

Rob Portman

#9. People b'lief the world is built so
an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.

David Mitchell

#10. No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

Malcolm Forbes