1745 Quotes & Sayings

I checked my messages before I started driving. I had three. The first was from Verizon, letting me know I could save more money by spending more money. — Gay Hendricks

The first half has gone how I almost half-anticipated. — Jimmy Armfield

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. — Valerie Jarrett

Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out. — Ethan Canin

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls. — Randy Pausch

Walking along the crowded row
He met the one he used to know. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I've got so many blessings in my life. — Chynna Phillips

It was the stuff of legends, the Highland Rising of 1745 in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Sebastian had heard the stories, too, from his grandmother, Hendon's mother, who had been a Grant from Glenmoriston. Stories of unarmed clansmen dragged out of crofts and slaughtered before their screaming children. Of women and children burned alive, or turned out of their villages to die in the snow. What was done to the Highlanders after Culloden would forever be a dark stain on the English soul. Everything from the pipes to the plaids to the Gaelic language itself had been forbidden, obliterating an entire culture. — C.S. Harris

This Mr. Harte died on 15th May, 1745, and missed many events of interest by doing so. — Andrew Lang

I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to join [Fidel] Castro was because my mother would not let me. I was only 16. — Huey Newton

What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually. — David Jeremiah

I think we all miss our childhood. — Rory Culkin

The average clan - and there were more than fifty of them in 1745 - was no more a family than is a Mafia "family." The only important blood ties were those between the chieftain and his various caporegimes, the so-called tacksmen who collected his rents and bore the same name. Below them were a large, nondescript, and constantly changing population of tenants and peasants, who worked the land and owed the chieftain service in war and peacetime. Whether they considered themselves Campbells or MacPhersons or Mackinnons was a matter of indifference, and no clan genealogist or bard, the seanachaidh, ever wasted breath keeping track of them. What mattered was that they were on clan land, and called it home. — Arthur Herman

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state. — Vladimir Putin

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near. — Teresa Of Avila

I honestly think that with our generation - Alex Wang, Prabal Gurung, Jason Wu, Christian Cota, Robert Geller - there's a different expectation of what our behavior should be. People expect designers to be good businesspeople and PR people, and I don't think partying is a part of that persona the way it used to be. — Joseph Altuzarra

Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best? — C.S. Lewis