"May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans."

-- Alexander the Great

#Revenge Quotes #Teeth Quotes #Cobras Quotes

“The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.”

Source : Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25
“People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.”
“It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.”
“Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.”
“They told me I'd have to be there for the entire shooting of the movie which was two and a half months and again, I was surprised. Most movies I'd worked on before took only a day or so, so I realized this was a pretty big deal. I got to the set and was involved in a very integral way, which was a fun experience to be a part of.”
“As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his own person so the noble rhetorician uses language to wean men away from their inclination to depend on authority, to encourage them to think and speak clearly, and to teach them to be their own masters.”
“The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.”

Source : Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
“When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.”

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