Amang Quotes & Sayings

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra. — Karrine Steffans

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration. — Jim Rohn

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it. — Robert Burns

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still his plan. — Tony Dungy

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it. — Paul Johnson

Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green! — Robert Burns

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious. — Elizabeth Charles

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy. — John Bunyan

Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'. — Edna Ferber

Egypt, too, learned to respect the long arm of British capitalism. During the nineteenth century, French and British investors lent huge sums to the rulers of Egypt, first in order to finance the Suez Canal project, and later to fund far less successful enterprises. Egyptian debt swelled, and European creditors increasingly meddled in Egyptian affairs. In 1881 Egyptian nationalists had had enough and rebelled. They declared a unilateral abrogation of all foreign debt. Queen Victoria was not amused. A year later she dispatched her army and navy to the Nile and Egypt remained a British protectorate until after World War Two. — Yuval Noah Harari

To the lucky dead who will not be feeling this hangover tomorrow. — Kurtis J. Wiebe