2013 Shutdown Quotes & Sayings

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate ... — Suzanne Collins

I wish you a blessed beautiful Christmas with the fullness of grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Change Won't Happen Immediately, as Nigeria's Problems Didn't Start Overnight — Mo Abudu

The two
heart-grey puddles:
two
mouthsfull of silence. — Paul Celan

I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either. — Esperanza Spalding

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures. — Bell Hooks

We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign. — Sergey Biryuzov

You aren't enjoying my misery, are you?" I admitted with a little sigh of defeat. "No, of course not," Armand said, "only, as usual, you don't really seem miserable. You're on the verge of an adventure, and just a little more cautious this time than when you let that mortal run off with your body and you took his." "No, not more cautious. Terrified. I think this creature, Memnoch, is the Devil. — Anne Rice

Industrial production, the flow of resources in the economy, the exertion of military effort in a war, the management of finances
all require the coordination of interrelated activities. What these complex undertakings share in common is the task of constructing a statement of actions to be performed, their timing and quantity (called a program or schedule), that, if implemented, would move the system from a given initial status as much as possible towards some defined goal — George Dantzig

Sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Adversity deprives us of our judgment. — Tacitus

We all have our tastes and our type ... [But] for me to say 'You're beautiful', I can only say that to my girlfriend. The word 'beautiful' has such a different caliber than any other word out there, like sexy, hot, cute. — Kellan Lutz