Such rulers were adored by the citizens they protected, but often their families had to bear the brunt of sacrifice.
When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.
We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.
People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.
His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and then rather serenely. The overall effect was overwhelmingly unapolog...
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts
S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.