Buckinghams Band Quotes & Sayings

Even if Lucretius was wrong, and the soul is immortal, it is nevertheless steadily changing its interests and its possessions.Our lives are mortal if our soul is not; and the sentiment which reconciled Lucretius to death is as much needed if we are to face many deaths, as if we are to face only one. — George Santayana

Yes, I could win the Olympics. I hope to, and that's what I'm training for. But it's really going to come down to me racing on that day ... Just being really calm and mature about what the reality is - that's my strategy. — Mark De Jonge

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. — William Shakespeare

Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive. — Confucius

I believe neither in the past existence of a Jewish people, exiled from its land, nor in the premise that the Jews are originally descended from the ancient land of Judea. — Shlomo Sand

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing. — Marsha Thomason

A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother. — Hesiod

We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on. — Jimmy Piersall

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly, and made the decisions that he could not reach when he was stationary. — Paul Bowles

I've heard some things about how it went from the other side. A lot of times you don't get to hear from the other side. I'm just glad to have the opportunity to fill Rosita's shoes, and hopefully I can make the fans happy. — Christian Serratos

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since. — Linda Ellerbee

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts. — Peter Drucker

It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant — John M. Poothullil

Most Western journalists in China prefer a Chinese-free international language, and thus bend over backwards to replace important Chinese terms with Western vocabularies. — Thorsten J. Pattberg