Posts from ‘June, 2008’

We really ran the court well in the first six minutes of the game. We had an effective man-to-man pressure that advocated numerous fast breaks.
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
If [...]

Drawing is the true test of art.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
Begin, be [...]

He who works his land will have abundant food.~The Bible
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.~The Bible
Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.~The Bible
Weeping may endure for a night, but [...]

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,common honesty, and common decency. [...]

There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands… but English women only [...]

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.~Isaac D’Israeli
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry.~William [...]

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
You just have to have a simple faith.
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.
You can do what you have [...]

I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists.
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of [...]

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
The young man who has not wept is a savage,and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
Chaos is a name for any [...]

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of [...]