Madrona Links Quotes

#1. Whether or not Afghanistan would be a peaceful nation-state had we not gone into Iraq I doubt. Afghanistan is going to be Afghanistan, no matter how hard we try to make it something else.

Michael Hastings

#2. Showing cats is addictive. All you need is one rosette and you're hooked.

Donna Andrews

#3. It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.

Ranbir Kapoor

#4. A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.

Laurence J. Peter

#5. I started ice-skating when I was about 12 or 13 and I was selected in the Australian team for ice hockey. I met my wife at St Moritz Ice Skating about 1955.

Lindsay Fox

#6. I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

Yvonne Craig

#7. Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Brian Tracy

#8. In the height of her happiness many years later, she would think of that solitary little girl, face downturned like a demure fucking bellflower, while inside there was the maelstrom. She'd want to smack that kid hard. Or pick her up in her arms and cover her eyes and run somewhere safe with her.

Lauren Groff

#9. Such a value system might be responsible for the fact that the burden of unavoidable unhappiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Melanie Ross

#11. To the birds you gave songs, the birds gave you songs in return. You gave me only a voice, yet asked for more, thus I sing.

Rabindranath Tagore

#12. I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower ... I think that she has tamed me ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery