Belzer Equipment Quotes & Sayings

I'd been surprised by the depth of emotion that was invested in that curiously archaic phrase 'great power'. What would it mean, I'd asked myself, to the lives of working journalists, salaried technocrats and so on if India achieved 'great power status'? What were the images evoked by this tag?
Now, walking through this echoing old palace, looking at the pictures in the corridors, this aspiration took on, for the first time, the contours of an imagined reality. This is what the nuclearists wanted: to sign treaties, to be pictured with the world's powerful, to hang portraits on their walls, to become ancestors. On the bomb they had pinned their hopes of bringing it all back. — Amitav Ghosh

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it. — Gary Larson

The soulless have no need of melancholia — Vladimir Odoyevsky

I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried. — S.A. Tawks

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation. — Al Gore

[the writer] must copy, with his finite mind, the process of the infinite 'I AM. — John Gardner

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory. — Ali Shaw