Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

The Night in Isla Negra

Pablo Neruda

Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

Robert Menzies

Hanya orang-orang dengan hati damailah yang boleh menerima kejadian buruk dengan lega.

Tere Liye

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Lydia Maria Child

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Margaret Atwood

He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo.

Ruthie Stein

The most splendid achievment of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Denis Waitley

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Al McGuire

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Benjamin Disraeli

It's funny recently I've started to notice people's impersonations of me, and it's basically like a hyperactive child.

Dave Grohl