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Freedom is that which comes from knowledge, the freedom that comes from curiosity, the freedom that comes from the times when the first man did not refuse to look into a telescope and discovered other planets, the freedom that comes from those who tried relentlessly when all others said it was impossible. It is in this freedom that deviance has its roots.
— Massimo Marino, Daimones
Sometimes you have to go to the bottom in order to start at the Top.
— Pensacola Helene Jefferson
You do not have to respond to a tiny annoying mosquito with a large hammer. You know what will happen? You will miss and hurt yourself.
— Mary Ashun, Tuesday's Child: A Memoir
Dreamers have sharp ears like spear and sharp eyes like an eagle.
— Euginia Herlihy
If you cannot change your circumstances, then change your attitude.
— Mark W. Boyer
A mentor is a trusted teacher that develops lives of the vulnerable ones.
— Euginia Herlihy
God always shows us the introduction and the conclusion of our dreams to excite us about the whole task. He doesn't want to show us the daunting body of our dreams because He knows that we'll rather run away from our dreams than to pursue them.
— Euginia Herlihy
You don't need to blow the trumpet when you accomplished something because your work, your action will speak itself.
— Euginia Herlihy
Quit living for the world, live for yourself just you alone because it's starts with you.
— Euginia Herlihy
Let your kindness, your compassion and your listening ear speaks itself.
— Euginia Herlihy
Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
— Euginia Herlihy
As a mentor you have to learn how to tackle the past of your mentee, be able to put it to sleep and focus to the promising future of him/her.
— Euginia Herlihy
Whether it be training, dieting, working out, or work ethic, for every great excuse "Not" to do something, there are 100 "better" reasons for you to do it.
— Mark W. Boyer
Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires and ideas.
— Euginia Herlihy
A great quality of your preparation will manifest on your performance.
— Euginia Herlihy
I have embraced the positive resolution certainly not to entertain any discouragement
—  anguish and antagonism as I am aware now that I am suppose to use them as a yard tick to measure my accomplishments and victories
... because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.
— Patrick  Hall, Blades in the Dark: The Guardians of Siva
Time vanquishes even the strongest of strongholds.
— Patrick  Hall, Blades in the Dark: The Guardians of Siva
my world is different from all of you because ,you all wanna rule your circle and i wanna rule all the circles
— sambalme
Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.
— Patrick  Hall, Blades in the Dark: The Guardians of Siva
To be a great dreamer you have to keep pushing and pushing through this crowded world.
— Euginia Herlihy
Be creative, be inventive minded, dream bigger that's the way to the promised land (your destiny).
— Euginia Herlihy
I believe every single person on this planet is a dreamer but you have to make a vigorous effort to make it in life.
— Euginia Herlihy
Rising and falling of my journey made me strive for more in life.
— Euginia Herlihy
Dreamers are full of inventive minds, willing to find new possibilities and new ways to grow in life.
— Euginia Herlihy
Positive thinking can move mountains, fill up valleys and it can make dry bones to become alive again.
— Euginia Herlihy
One positive idea can solve the situation you in, can make a massive difference and change your life forever.
— Euginia Herlihy
Because that happened to me when I was little, this is how I will now treat other people"; "Because so and so beat me up and hurt me a long time ago, that gives me the right to treat people the way I treat them, today"; "Because life was hard on me, life should be hard on everyone else around me"— does this sound/ look familiar? It's called victim mentality. When people choose to be the direct product of everything that happened to them, the direct product of every single pair of hands that hurt them. And the world, to these people, must bend over backwards in order to accommodate their wounds. Some people don't want to be loved; they just want to make the world pay.
— C. JoyBell C.
Okay, I know--my superpower--I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips--great big knowledge network lightening bolts--and when a person was zapped by one of those bolts, they'd fall down on their knees and once on their knees, they'd be under water, in this place I saw once off the east coast of the Bahamas, a place where a billion electric blue fish swam up to me and made me a part of their school--and then they'd be up in the air, up in Manhattan, above the World Trade Center, with a flock of pigeons, flying amid the skyscrapers, and then--then what? And then they'd go blind, and then they'd be taken away--they'd feel homesick--more homesick than they'd felt in their entire life--so homesick they were throwing up--and they'd be abandoned, I don't know...in the middle of a harvested corn field in Missouri. And then they'd be able to see again, and from the edges of the field people would appear--everybody they'd known--and they'd be carrying Black Forest cakes and burning tiki lamps and boom boxes playing the same song, and they sky would turn into a sunset, the way it does in Walt Disney brochure, and the person I zapped would never be alone or isolated again.
— Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic
The effort you put forth in whatever you do is directly proportional to the results you produce.
— Mark W. Boyer
Creativity is making regret free mistakes, Wisdom is knowing which ones have value
— Mark W. Boyer, Resumes 101: Get in Step
The best help we can offer the youth of today is to prepare them for tomorrow.
— Mark W. Boyer
Sexual attraction is common, Mind rapport is a blessing, and a Soul connection is a gift from the Divine."-Serena Jade
— Serena Jade, Charismatic Connection
Love creates acceptance, respect, passion and security.
— Euginia Herlihy
The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of restrictions of the mind that separates our intellectually aptitude
— Archibald Gumiro
Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart, it's very special and very unique to me.
— Euginia Herlihy
Creativity is a massive and the sharpest voice that reaches every corner of the globe.
— Euginia Herlihy
Creativity is the work of your hands or the work of your tongue so you have to be careful what you say because it would cost you big time.
— Euginia Herlihy
Every right decision you create opens a wide gate to your destiny.
— Euginia Herlihy
Try to create a wall of inspiration around yourself in order to succeed in life.
— Euginia Herlihy
Don't think needlessly, think wisely, and your thoughts will emit positive vibes through out you, and the Universe.
— Tania Gardana
We were all created to dream and conquer.
— Euginia Herlihy
What ever you do, try to do it perfectly because the world is watching you; every step and every move you make. It's ready to crush you down or to build you up. That's the world for you.
— Euginia Herlihy
Every journey we take requires a good pair of wellingtons because there are some thorns and puddles along the way.
— Euginia Herlihy
Often times it isn't the quality of your candidates, it's the quality of your interview.
— Mark W. Boyer
Be Free!, That I want to Be !
— Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
Years teach us days don't understand.
— SalemIsaac
But cycling is less a hobby than it is a discipline with the potential to transform you. It brings balance.
— BikeSnobNYC, Bike Snob: Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling
Do something that feels good in the mornings! It will help you to setup your day to take in more knowledge and understanding, which ultimately leads to wisdom.
— Martin R. Lemieux
You can overcome all obstacles and lifewith faith in GOD, Trust in GOD, andBelieve in GOD
— Irene McCullum-Hines, Lost in a Memory
Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.
— M.H. McKee
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.
— Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Writing is my life,a God given gift; no one on this planet can separate me from it.
— Euginia Herlihy, The Experiences of Life & Prayers
Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity.
— Euginia Herlihy, The Experiences of Life & Prayers
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— alfaz .rayyan.sheikh
When you continually tell Life: "there are things that I lack and things that I want", Life will return that exact experience. But when you continually tell Life: "I have all that I need and am free to serve others", Life will return that exact experience: you will have all you need and will be free to serve others.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
— Emma Lazarus
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
— Noam Chomsky
I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
— Steven Wright
The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a troublesome minority. It is a country so powerful, so big, so pleasing to so many of its citizens that it can afford to give freedom of dissent to the small number who are not pleased. There is no system of control with more openings, apertures, leeways, flexibilities, rewards for the chosen, winning tickets in lotteries. There is none that disperses its controls more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass media--none more successful in mollifying opposition with reforms, isolating people from one another, creating patriotic loyalty.
— Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.
— Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.
— Noam Chomsky, Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
— Rick  Mercer
Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.
— Sarah Palin
They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys. It's worked for over 200 years, and Hell, we're not using it anymore.
— Jay Leno
Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand in my native Hampshire. Until some time after the war, the squirrels of England had been red. I can still vaguely remember these sweet Beatrix Potter–type creatures, smaller and prettier and more agile and lacking the rat-like features that disclose themselves when you get close to a gray squirrel. These latter riffraff, once imported from America by some kind of regrettable accident, had escaped from captivity and gradually massacred and driven out the more demure and refined English breed. It was said that the gray squirrels didn't fight fair and would with a raking motion of their back paws castrate the luckless red ones. Whatever the truth of that, the sighting of a native English squirrel was soon to be a rarity, confined to the north of Scotland and the Isle of Wight, and this seemed to be emblematic, for the anxious lower middle class, of a more general massification and de-gentrification and, well, Americanization of everything.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.
— Winston S. Churchill
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Far too many people—many of them academics, many politicians—continue to jabber about a supposed 'special relationship' between our two coun
— Peter Hitchens
The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.
— James Barrett Reston, Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting
British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
We go to Europe to be Americanized.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them to frame the Constitution of the United States
— Lorenzo Snow
There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.
— Christopher Hitchens, For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
— Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East to multiply the profits of oil and arms companies, and armed violence escalated and reached our shores.
— Alaa Al Aswany, شيكاجو
A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember distinctly looking up from the quad on what was quite a moon-flooded night, and thinking about it. They made it! The Stars and Stripes are finally flown on another orb! Also, English becomes the first and only language spoken on a neighboring rock! Who could forbear to cheer? Still, the experience was poisoned for me by having to watch Richard Nixon smirking as he babbled to the lunar-nauts by some closed-circuit link. Was even the silvery orb to be tainted by the base, earthbound reality of imperialism?
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Well, then what the federal government should have done was accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solutions that they wanted presented. They can't even get a phone call returned, Bill. The Dutch—they are known, and the Norwegians—they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help and yet, no, they too, with the proverbial, can't even get a phone call back.
— Sarah Palin
Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.
— Christopher Hitchens
Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:"'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item 7, the simultaneous interpreter services, if these services could be provided gratis by the U.S. government.'""In other words, the only way to make a saving on a U.S.-subsidized project is to take money out of another U.S.-subsidized column.
— Christopher Hitchens
Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.
— Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an Irish-American and so forth. (Jews for some reason prefer the words the other way around, as in 'American Jewish Congress' or 'American Jewish Committee.') And any of those groups can and does have a 'national day' parade on Fifth Avenue in New York. But there is no such thing as an 'English-American' let alone a 'British-American,' and one can only boggle at the idea of what, if we did exist, our national day parade on Fifth Avenue might look like. One can, though, be an Englishman in America. There is a culture, even a literature, possibly a language, and certainly a diplomatic and military relationship, that can accurately be termed 'Anglo-American.' But something in the very landscape and mapping of America, with seven eastern seaboard states named for English monarchs or aristocrats and countless hamlets and cities replicated from counties and shires across the Atlantic, that makes hyphenation redundant. Hyphenation—if one may be blunt—is for latecomers.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was all a put-up job. He's a wacko.
— Christopher Hitchens
There is no way that the new WikiLeaks leaks don't leave Hillary Clinton holding the smoking gun. The time for her departure may come next week or next month, but sooner or later, the weakened and humiliated secretary of state will have to pay.
— Jack Shafer
Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to take decisive action in the face of pervasive problems. In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country's inability to govern itself.
— David Brooks
Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?
— Christopher Hitchens
Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry
—  here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.
Even in the heart of America, if a small city is not connected in some demonstrable fashion to other continents, it is dead.
— Robert D. Kaplan, Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
One of the real reasons that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is so intent on remaining loyal to Syria’s Dictator Bashar Al-Assad, is that in January 2017, Russia and Syria signed a lease to extend Russia's control of its naval facility in the port of Tartus, Syria for 49 years. As with the United States Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, the Russians have sovereign rights over the territory, considered a Material-Technical Support Point and not technically a naval base. The piers are large enough to accommodate four medium-sized vessels but not any of their larger ships of the line, including cruisers or their aircraft carrier. The facility which gives Russia a warm water port, consists of office space, two storage buildings, barracks and a parking garage for about six vehicles. Under the terms of this lease agreement, the Russians also operate Khmeimim Air Base located south-east of the city of Latakia, Syria. The present lease for these military facilities has an extension clause for an additional 25 years.
— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
China is constantly reinventing itself and so is the United States.
— Patrick Mendis, Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.
— Patrick Mendis
This next president is going to inherit the most sophisticated and persistent cyber espionage cultures the world has ever seen, He needs to surround himself with experts that can expedite the allocation of potent layers of next generation defenses around our targeted critical infrastructure silos.
— James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
By the time the Freedom Flights, to use the US description, came to an end, more than 260,000 Cubans had been airlifted to the United States, every one of them registered by the Swiss before they left Cuba.
— Clare O'Dea, The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths
It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen.
— Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
Is it that bad, Mrs. Bowen?" Clement asked.Emily shook her head. "Gertrude's been hurt and so she's generalizing. It's a pretty good country on the whole, and the people in it, too. We have our faults and they may be glaring, and we have individuals we may not be proud of, but take us by and large we'll stick our necks our for something we believe in, and that in itself may be a fault, but it's one I like.""Bravo," Abe said.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.
— Bernard DeVoto, The Year of Decision 1846
What does ‘United States of America’ mean? That we’re some states, we’re united somehow, and that we’re in America. America could be anywhere on the continents of North or South America, so that’s not specific enough, and the part about the states doesn’t narrow it down, either. Mexico has united states, too. So does Canada, except they call them provinces. It’s not even a name. It’s just a vague description. It’s so generic, like naming a country ‘Country.
— Erin O'Riordan, Cut
The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world.
— Jason Medina, No Hope for the Hopeless at Kings Park
We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.
— Kenneth Eade, Unreasonable Force
The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
— Frida Kahlo
You might have liked the United States more,”” she said. “They’ve got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better.
— Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon
Detroit is just like everywhere else, only more so--a lot more so.
— Jerry Herron
In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance when, on the evening before the talks were scheduled to begin, Saddam Hussein announced that the independent state of Kuwait had, by virtue of a massive deployment of military force, become a part of Iraq. We were not to know that this act—and the name Saddam Hussein—would dominate international politics for the next decade and more, but it was still possible to witness something extraordinary: the sight of Mrs. Thatcher publicly inserting quantities of lead into George Bush’s pencil. The spattering quill of a Ralph Steadman would be necessary to do justice to such a macabre yet impressive scene.
— Christopher Hitchens, Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson
He pondered that a little while and then he asked, do Black people have to pay for their doctors, too? Because that's what TV programs had said. I smiled a little at this and told him it's not only Black people who have to pay for doctors and medical care; all people in America have to. Ah, he said. And suppose you don't have the money to pay? Well, I said, if you don't have the money to pay, sometimes you died. And there was no mistaking my gesture, even though he had to wait for the translator to translate it. We left him looking absolutely nonplussed, standing in the middle of the square with his mouth open and his hand under his chin staring after me, as in utter amazement that human beings could die from lack of medical care. It's things like that that keep me dreaming about Russia long after I've returned.
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Eight years in the Wolston academy and I knew it all came down to the next 90 minutes.
— P.J. Davitt, One Shot at Glory
...Americans didn’t stick to cities, which makes us different from the people in other industrialized countries. We no sooner arrived in town, turning those towns into great mid-century metropolises, than we decided to take off for the green world beyond, so that by the 1970 Census, we had become the first suburban nation in the history of the world. And Detroit led the way, with a population curve up and down just like everywhere else, but with its urban decline a lot steeper over the past sixty years—so typical a place that it only looks like an exception.
— Jerry Herron
It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.
— Glenn Greenwald
I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.
— Howard W. French, China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa
Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered with kilim rugs and fertility sculptures. The white stucco in front of her looked only slightly more substantial than a roadside weigh station.
— Mira Jacob, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.
— George W. Bush, Decision Points
Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.
— Liz  Long, The Constitution: It's the OS for the Us
Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.
— George W. Bush, Decision Points
While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society.
— Diego Rivera, My Art, My Life
Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.
— Michael Parenti, Against Empire
Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.
— Stephen Colbert
The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system
— Zbigniew Brzeziński, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.
— Stephen Colbert
I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.
— Glenn Greenwald
The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into an ignorant garrison-state mentality or wallow in self-righteous cultural hedonism
— Zbigniew Brzeziński, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.
— Fred Kaplan
A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.
— Glenn Greenwald
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
— Gore Vidal
Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.
— Stephen Colbert
To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives-And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate-And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger-And to the nation...The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States.'- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
— Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men
With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.
— Michelle Templet
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.
— Stephen Colbert
The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
— Johann Hari
I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.
— Neil LaBute, The Mercy Seat
Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting and brings financial upheaval and misery to Americans.
— Jim  McCarthy, The Money Spiders, the Ruin-NATION of the United States by the Federal Reserve
If God created everything, and if man is created in God's image, and if man can dream a fate greater than the one set out for him by God, could God dream a fate greater than his own?
— Michael  Anthony, Civilianized: A Young Veteran's Memoir
Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
— Walter Chantry
God always smiles because of our little deeds done with a good heart, but to make the heart of God always beat for you, win and keep a soul for Him!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Miracle centered gospel has reduced Christian significance and essence.
— Sunday Adelaja
The difference between christians and non christians is not their sins, but their sens.
— Alin Sav
Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn't waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.
— Betsy Childs Howard, Seasons of Waiting: Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed
God is the greatest nurturer of all.
— Eddie  Capparucci
She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.
— Janette Oke, Love Comes Softly
Joseph went from prison toprime minister from trials to triumph, from scar-weary to stardom.
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Unlocking God's Divine Favor
Strength is not created by adversity
—  it is merely awakened by it.
I seek to humble myself, so I won't attract the harsh experiences that will.
— Katelyne Parker, Hosanna
Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.
— Jason E. Royle, Judas: Hero Misunderstood
The purpose of life is to glorify God through our various pursuits.
— Moagi Keretetse, Manual For Fulfilling Your Purpose: Lessons from the book of Nehemiah
do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime
— Charles F. Stanley
Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
One thing I learned going through a storm and that is, you can Praise God in the dark! If God makes light to shine out of darkness, well bless God, I can call forth light into my situation. I am the light of God. Praising Him is not determined by day or night. In whatever state I find myself in, I will continue to acknowledge Him. Then and only then, He will direct my path.
— Shelena Griffiths
Science is one of tools God uses to display his power and the optimum potentials He has deposited in man.
— David Nii Sowah Kobbina Adjei
The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.
— Jonathan Mark Covey
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Stay true to yourself_Stay true to God!!!
— Kgosietsile Martin Timothy
A slap from God is better than a handshake from the devil.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
…her mom's faith wasn't just about God healing her, it was about God's sovereignty in her life. She had faith that God is, and will always be, who He says He is in His Word.
— Michelle Lynn Brown, Miracles in Disguise
God chooses the weak to qualify for His purpose.
— Annie B. Carwyn
Your husband is not responsible for your happiness
— Ngina Otiende, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily-Ever-After In The Early Years
the drama below and the drama above could easily collide at any moment
— Ana Chapman, Leap of Faith
When satan sees a baby, however, he doesn’t see a fragile, sweet, gurgling child; he sees a potential grown-up who is bought by the blood of the lamb and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost, a servant of God and a soldier of the cross, a great threat to his kingdom.
— Theresa Pecku-Laryea, Hannah's Song
I daresay that your son or daughter has been sent as an answer to someone’s cry and that the enemy sees the greatness and the deliverer in him or her and is trying to prevent them from entering the world.
— Theresa Pecku-Laryea
What sinks the devil sails the Christian.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Testifying doesn't mean you're bragging.
— Steven Chopade
The crimson thread of God's love that weaves its way throughout the story of His mercy in our life, stands out against the backdrop of the darkness which invades any valley.
— Amy E. Tobin, Still, Love Remains: God's Crimson Threads of Grace
May the fullness of God's love and His mercy shine as treasures to be found in every horizon.
— Amy E. Tobin, Still, Love Remains: God's Crimson Threads of Grace
Life is about trusting, loving, growing and healing even in the hurts which can occur.
— Amy E. Tobin, Still, Love Remains: God's Crimson Threads of Grace
The mirror of humanity always reflects the need for a Savior.
— Amy E. Tobin, Still, Love Remains: God's Crimson Threads of Grace
Every life has a purpose. The longest life has many stories to tell of the opportunities to witness God's hand. The shortest life holds the eternal treasure of impacting lives as a testimony of God's creation because of a precious heartbeat.
— Amy E. Tobin, Still, Love Remains: God's Crimson Threads of Grace
I was born in atheist country and raised in a Muslim family.All I can say that "Life with out God and Jesus, is a dark worthless lost life. Life with God and Jesus is a bright-light and joyful life!when I lived in Albania under the communist regime I was lost.when i come to USA found god and and my self!With God all thinks are possible!Amen!
— "Beta" Metani' Marashi
A little knee time first thing in the day keeps you standing all day!
— Evinda Lepins
NEVER SACRIFICE YOUR VALUES & MORALS FOR RICHES OR FAME. IT'S A PAYMENT THAT'S NON-REFUNDABLE
— Sotero M Lopez II
There is a wide difference between having poison and being poisoned. All apothecaries have poisons ready for special uses, but they are not consequently poisoned, because the poison is only in their shop, not in themselves; and so you many possess riches without being poisoned by them, so long as they are in your house or purse only, and not in your heart. It is the Christian's privilege to be rich in material things , and poor in attachment to them.
— St. Francis de Sales
The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God
— Sunday Adelaja
God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order
— Sunday Adelaja
Only a fool would dream of riches when what is rarest are moments
— Bruce Meyer, The Seasons
If you do not sow into God, you cannot expect a financial harvest.
— Sunday Adelaja
God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies.
— Sunday Adelaja
A large salary does not make a person rich, it is a diligent hand that does.
— Sunday Adelaja
Only God is not limited in anything.
— Sunday Adelaja
Your riches cannot save you from fornication.
— Sunday Adelaja
No matter how rich a person is, his resources are limited.
— Sunday Adelaja
Satisfaction is the inner state of a man
—  it cannot be achieved externally.
Money is not the perfect source of satisfaction. This source is God.
— Sunday Adelaja
God’s riches are sufficient to bless all humanity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Wealth is all misery and sickness to the brain, try not to put yourself deep in it, it shall erase your humanity feelings.
— Auliq Ice
My best form of investment is paying my tithe and offering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy
The Master's Sacred Knowledge.Love is the treasure you should seek! The greatest treasure to be foundis in your heart.It is a place where you have storedyour riches over the eons of time.It is a place nobody else can go,only you!BUT, you can only reach itby going into the heart centre.Not many people discover their treasure,as they are always lookingoutside for it in material objects,whereas it is inside and eternaland of an etheric nature.Love is that treasure!- Allan Rufus (.org)
— Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
It is better to be hungry in joy, than to be filled in sorrow.
— Dennis E. Adonis
I fear that in this thing many rich people deceive themselves. They go on accumulating the means but never using them; making bricks, but never building.
— George Eliot
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
— Angela Carter
When good Americans die, they go to Paris.
— Oscar Wilde
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space. 
— Guy de Maupassant
Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispered, “You’re about to find out how your liver tastes, my friend.”“I have tasted it already,” Zacharel said, his voice its usual monotone. The snowflakes began to fall in earnest, tiny at first, but growing in diameter. An arctic wind blustered around him. “It was a bit salty.”How the hell was a guy supposed to respond to that?Apparently William didn’t know, either, because he gaped at the angel. Then, “Maybe if you added a little pepper?”O-kay. It was official. William had an answer for everything.
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Seduction
They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!
— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.
— Henry Van Dyke
We'll always have Paris.
— Howard Koch
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her--and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
He who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo.Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic.Nothing is more sublime.
— Victor Hugo
There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.
— Vincent van Gogh
I guess it goes to show that you just never know where life will take you. You search for answers. You wonder what it all means. You stumble, and you soar. And, if you’re lucky, you make it to Paris for a while.
— Amy Thomas, Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren't enough euros to go around. "The entire EU is short on coins."And I say, "Really?" because there are plenty of them in Germany. I'm never asked for exact change in Spain or Holland or Italy, so I think the real problem lies with the Parisian cashiers, who are, in a word, lazy. Here in Tokyo they're not just hard working but almost violently cheerful. Down at the Peacock, the change flows like tap water. The women behind the registers bow to you, and I don't mean that they lower their heads a little, the way you might if passing someone on the street. These cashiers press their hands together and bend from the waist. Then they say what sounds to me like "We, the people of this store, worship you as we might a god.
— David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
— Michael Simkins, Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.
— Samantha Schutz, I Don't Want To Be Crazy
Study is the child of silence and mystery.
— Henri Murger, The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter: Scenes de la Vie de Boheme
Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station—the Gare D'Orsay—and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees—nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?
— Margaret Anderson
If you ask the great city, ‘Who is this person?,’ she will answer, ‘He is my child.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
— Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sienna, meet Zacharel. He's a warrior angel for the One, True Deity. Zacharel, meet Sienna. She's mine.
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Seduction