“The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.”
Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 28
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Cristoforo Colombo (1451–1506) Explorer, navigator, and colonizer
3 August 1492 diary entry http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.html <br class="br">Journal of the First Voyage
Uuno Kailas (1901–1933) Finnish poet and writer
Uuno Kailas, cited in: Mikael af Malmborg, Bo Stråth (2002), The Meaning of Europe, p. 157
“If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Käme Christus wieder, wie würde er seine falschen Bediensteten mit der Peitsche aus seinem Tempel jagen!
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“I cannot command winds and weather.”
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral
As quoted in Letters and Despatches of Horatio, Viscount Nelson, K.B. (1886) edited by John Knox Laughton, p. 99
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Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: La persona che non parla alle spalle, ma in faccia, o si odia o si ama. Il deficiente la disprezza, l'intelligente la stima.
Source: prevale.net
Vitruvius book De architectura
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter VI, Sec. 4
Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) Prime Minister of India
In, P.150.
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“Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather.”
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, The Turquoise Lament (1973)
Context: Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset. Crime pays a lot better. I can bend my own rules way, way over, but there is a place where I finally stop bending them. I can recognize the feeling. I've been there a lot of times.
From now on, Lawton Hisp was not going to have a very nice life. They might never come after him, but it just wasn't going to be very joyous from now on.
Happy New Year, Mister Hisp.