A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
Let us build for the tomorrow, build a nation strong and free; and the Lord who dwells above us, He will bless our destiny".
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.
In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".
Is it love to worship a saint in heaven, whom you dare not touch, who hovers above you like a cloud, which floats away from you even as you gaze? To love is to feel one being in the world at one with us, our equal in sin as well as in virtue. To love...
A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff and self-willed; he is patient with hard fare; he expects no other than to be despised...
She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of beauty and virtue so incredibly combined. And all perhaps wrenched from my ...
The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.
You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.
I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.
Develop the wings of loyalty and you will fly above the dooms of disappointments. Disloyalty has one whistle; when it’s blown, opportunities take to their heels!
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray.
