Life Quotes

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gul...

Washington Irving

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

Walid Jumblatt

No one can live under degradation.

Walid Jumblatt

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

Walid Jumblatt

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Walid Jumblatt

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Walid Jumblatt

Syrian influence has not ended yet. It is going to be a very long path.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Walid Jumblatt

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Walid Jumblatt

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Walid Jumblatt

We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

Walid Jumblatt

You can't hit what you can't see.

Walter Johnson

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

Wanda Jackson

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

Wanda Jackson

I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.

Wanda Jackson

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

Wanda Jackson

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

Wanda Jackson

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Wanda Jackson

If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.

Wanda Jackson

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

Wang Jianlin