Acciona Infrastructure Quotes & Sayings

Thieves and prostitutes. Our mothers were in that car, along with a teacher, a librarian, elderly people, and a newborn baby - thieves and prostitutes. — Ruta Sepetys

I could do what I had to. I'd done it before: gone blank, pushed forward. — Donna Tartt

The elderly are useless eaters. — Henry A. Kissinger

As the statistician George E. P. Box wrote, "All models are wrong, but some models are useful." What he meant by that is that all models are simplifications of the universe, as they must necessarily be. As another mathematician said, "The best model of a cat is a cat."
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The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself. — Nate Silver

I took a little celebrational nap. — Renata Adler

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone. — Sally Mann

He dared to do what men and women don't even dare to think. And look what he's done already: he's torn open the sky, he's opened the way to another world. Who else has ever done that? Who else could think of it? — Philip Pullman

Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or another. Consistency is not required, but engagement with the problem is. — Jonathan Safran Foer

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. — Khaled Hosseini

My life might have begun as a mistake, but I wouldn't let it end as one. — Jodi Meadows

Like nature, like life. The storm will pass. The night will end. Spring will come. — Carol Morgan

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it. — Sherwin B. Nuland