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The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality. The one word that no foreigner can avoid learning is mañana.

Homage to Catalonia

I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

The sign above the door was written in French. It read: ARRÊTE ! C’EST ICI L’EMPIRE DE LA MORT. “That means,” he explained to Gini, “‘Stop! It is here the Empire of Death.

Brainwashed

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

The Book Thief

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

Ann Coulter

Me personally, I want to entertain people above all. When you look back at burlesque in history and the real golden age of burlesque, those entertainers were there to entertain, and there wasn't usually some big political message behind what they wer...

Dita Von Teese

Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law.

Scott Turow

I am probably not alone in sensing above me the huge corporations and monstrous banks, science, politics and technologies, spy satellites and stock markets, military systems and massive wealth - forces and dynamics I don't understand or can hardly im...

Michael Leunig

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Michael Ende

You cannot control the past but you have control over the life you build going forward.

Above All Else, Success in Life and Business

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

Another Faust

The Self-revealing of the Word is in every dimension - above, in creation; below, in the Incarnation; in the depth, in Hades; in the breadth, throughout the world. All things have been filled with the knowledge of God.

On the Incarnation

Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

The Kills

The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.

Saffy's Angel

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

The Stranger's Child

When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.

Shoot the Damn Dog: A Memoir of Depression

Humility is not weak, powerless, faint, a pushover, a punching bag or an abuse magnet, because above all — humility cares.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.

Magic Gifts

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

Nerilka's Story

Almost overnight, Albert Pinkham had gone from being barely able to keep his head above water to walking on the stuff.

Once Upon a Time on the Banks