"Peace the offspring is of Power."

-- Bayard Taylor

#Peace Quotes #Offspring Quotes

“Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.”
“Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?”
“I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.”
“What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.”

Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press
“Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!”
“If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.”
“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”
“I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing to show for the day: Perry Delloplane. The sound of a name. It is a grape in my mouth. I roll it over and over on my tongue--perrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplaneperrydelloplane--but when I try to crush it with my teeth, it slips away.”

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