Adwin Quotes & Sayings

I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got. — Sarah Parish

What southern whites further sought, and in a sense demanded, was respect. This the North provided after 1876 in paeans to the courage and dedication of soldiers on both sides. Resentment of northern power, the war's destruction, and Reconstruction continued to be strong in the South, and the work of white-supremacist politicians, army veterans, and southern women turned that resentment into a long-lasting ideology of the Lost Cause. Northerners, for their part, congratulated themselves on winning the war and freeing the slaves; they also took pleasure in feeling superior to the South for many generations, while industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and other social changes diverted much of their attention from wartime issues [184]. — Paul D. Escott

Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him. — Kresley Cole

Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it. — Anne Lamott

forever: 23 percent something mysterious that they call dark matter, 73 percent something even more mysterious that they call dark energy. Which leaves only 4 percent the stuff of us. As one theorist likes to say at public lectures, "We're just a bit of pollution." Get rid of us and of everything else we've ever thought of as the universe, and very little would change. "We're completely irrelevant, — Richard Panek

You can always tell a gunner by his greasy hands and vacant stare, You can always tell a Bombardier by his manners debonair, You can always tell a Navigator by his pencils, books and such, And you can always tell a Pilot, But you can never tell him much. — Jim Arnold

Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you. — Nicky Gumbel

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors. — Keith Henson

God made the water but men made the wine. — Victor Hugo

The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. — Paul Weyrich

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen. — Jamie Oliver