He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.
Jonathan Bennett
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
Sue Johanson
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
Bashar al-Assad
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.
Ayrton Senna
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
William Henry Harrison
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
Tom Baker
Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
Baz Luhrmann
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
Margaret Cho
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
We are not at war against Islam.
Barack Obama
I want my family to resemble the family I came from.
Katherine Heigl
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
Albert Einstein
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Franz Kafka
We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
Black Kettle
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
Amy Grant
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
I believe my past is my strength.
Michel Martelly
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.
Frank Miller
Man is by nature a political animal.
But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
Henry Rollins
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
Adam Hochschild
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
John Keble
The law is reason, free from passion.
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron
The end of labor is to gain leisure.
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
Tori Amos
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
Chuck Palahniuk
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