"The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders."

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Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

D. J. MacHale

#Blood Quotes #Leader Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.”
“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”

Source : "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March, 2009.
“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]”
“Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.”
“Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has...”
“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.”
“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”
“The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.”

Source : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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