Mexica Quotes

#1. In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims

Eric Wolf

#2. Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ...

Rumer Godden

#3. I think the Dudleys are mad at us, well, because we're beautiful!

Edge

#4. When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

Jack Kornfield

#5. Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

George Orwell

#6. Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#7. Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

Nicolas Cage

#8. God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Frederick Buechner

#9. I speak a little Spanish, so I'm able to communicate.

Marcus Camby

#10. By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

John Roberts

#11. Today, I will start my life over. And tomorrow, I will build on today and carry on in the same way every day thereafter.

Paige Dearth

#12. When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

A.W. Tozer

#13. I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day!

Alicia Sacramone

#14. The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!

Gwendolyn Brooks