Willy Adames Quotes

#1. Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

Martial

#2. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash

Harper Lee

#3. Does knowledge dwindle and only the salt singing itself through sea and blood become the drink of poetry?

Terrance Lane Millet

#4. In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.

Edward Hirsch

#5. No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Chester W. Nimitz

#6. So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Arundhati Roy

#7. In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed.

Mahbub Ul Haq

#8. The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deepest sense but we feel stuck with superficiality.

Dannah Gresh

#9. We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

Peter Senge

#10. But know this, the lass will wed you -- her words -- and if you wed another in the interim, it will go badly for you."
Marcus smiled. He loved her and if it was in his power to do so, they would be wed.

Terry Spear

#11. Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

Henry John Heinz

#12. Love subtracts sorrow,
divides trouble,
adds blessings,
and multiplies joy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn't care, because if it did, it would've reversed.

Laura Kreitzer

#14. A lot can happen when the sun dips down and the moon come out to play ...

Ella Frank

#15. I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art was attached to relatively stable structures, and it was everybody's. It was like going to the movies.

Antony Gormley