Quotes by Authors - Page 236

In a country authored and sustained by criminal irresponsibility.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
It grey louder. Louder. They were singing, singing at the top of their lungs. Andrius joined, and then my brother and the gray-haired man. And finally, the bald man joined in, singing out national anthem. 'Lithuania, land of heroes...
Ruta Sepetys
If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.
Dan Groat
South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.
Christina Engela
Do you remember a time when men were men? When they would do anything for love, for their friends or for their country?'No, I don't, but at least I would love to read about those men!
David Cook
In our opinion, Coke is great from a can, still good from a bottle, yet hard to get just right from the fountain. But oh, when they do get it right, it tastes good enough to be an eighth wonder of the world.
Alecia Whitaker
His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for me, and I say goodbye, floating over to where my family waits in our Winnebago. And I can't tell you if my feet actually touch the ground, because at this very moment, this Bird, well, she flies.
Alecia Whitaker
That boy shakes me upside down and inside out.
Alecia Whitaker
We are doing a disservice to our country when we keep on pushing the messages of miracles, signs and wonders.
Sunday Adelaja
It is wickedness when you only enjoy the benefit of a country and not contribute to the development of the country.
Sunday Adelaja
You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality
Sunday Adelaja
Those born of God are called to reform their country, for that reason Christians need to have a victorious mentality
Sunday Adelaja
Changes are impossible without God either in your life or in the country
Sunday Adelaja
We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed
Sunday Adelaja
We have to be active if we want to see revival and the glory of God in our country
Sunday Adelaja
We are responsible for our country before God
Sunday Adelaja
Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.
Meia Geddes
My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.
Viktor Tatarczuk
Aye. 'Tis a free country."Monq had come to check on Elora just as she asked that question."Well, that kind of has to be qualified," he interjected. "You can't come or go without a passport. You can't drive without a driver's license, registration, auto insurance and proof that your vehicle is up to code. You can't work or even get health care without a social security number. You have to pay taxes on everything including air and water. The closest distance between point A and B may involve paying a road toll. There are over three hundred thousand federal laws. You have to educate your children according to legal standards set by someone that's not you. There are laws about who can marry whom. But other than a few more such trivialities, it's a free country.
Victoria Danann
After all, the Indo-European word cunt was derived from the goddess Kunda or Cunti, and shares the same root as kin and country.
Eve Ensler
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Charmaine J.Forde
Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.
Santosh Kalwar
Government is a ruling structured thuggery.
Toba Beta
On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.
Christopher Moore
No holidays, no country.
Toba Beta
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.
Melina Marchetta
He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.
J.R.R. Tolkien
We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
G.K. Chesterton
Courage drown by horses is hard to market, and makes more wounds.
Auliq-Ice
Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be.
Auliq-Ice
Many great people have experienced some kind of failure. They build on the lessons from failing to become great.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Insecurity kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Suzy Kassem
Fear mediocrity,not failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rather than always impose your will,allow men to learn from their mistakes.Great failures make great teachers;success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do anything that you want to do other than what you are required to do...success will surely go to others.
Amit Abraham
Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We can learn as much, if not more, from failure, from promising paths that turn into dead ends. The vision, understanding, patience, and wisdom that informed Steve's last decade were forged in the trials of these intervening years. The failures, stinging reversals, miscommunications, bad judgment calls, emphases on wrong values-the whole Pandora's box of immaturity-were necessary prerequisites to the clarity, moderation, reflection, and steadiness he would display in the later years.
Brent Schlender
You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
Pearl Zhu
Failure is the new success.
Phil Volatile
Failing one time — or even several times — doesn’t make you a failure any more than losing one game makes you a loser.
Frank Sonnenberg
It is a strange thing to realize... but our failures so often place us where we need to be.
Jeff Loveness
Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.
Dr. Kevin Leman
Failure is not the end of the road, its a stepping stone to do better!
Hopal Green
Now is the time to make good use of time.Today is the day to begin a perfect day.
Sri Chinmoy
I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.
Steven Herrick
God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
Dillon Burroughs
We can't rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.
Anthony Liccione
Next time I will ...""From now on I will ..."- What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?
Hugh Prather
Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.
Mik Everett
We have to remember, sometimes the most important history is the history we're making today.
J.K. Rowling
Every TODAY has a better version, called TOMORROW.
Vikrmn
What day is it?” It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY. Not true. Today is another day. We have no idea what tomorrow is going to be. It might turn out to be another day, but we can't be sure. If it happens, I'll be the first to say so. But, you know what? By that time, it'll be today again
George Carlin
What day is it,?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.“My favorite day,” said Pooh.
A.A. Milne
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Anonymous bumper sticker
You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.
Stella Newman
Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.
Medeia Sharif
Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.
Lailah Gifty Akita