Demographers Estimate Quotes & Sayings

Something inside me clicked, like an engine shifting into higher gear. My thinking suddenly became faster and clearer. The anger and fear didn't go away, but I realized they weren't important. They weren't going to help me ... — Rick Riordan

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. — Cardinal Richelieu

The writers I know seem constitutionally unable to allow themselves to be discouraged by failure. — William G. Tapply

The Mayans have predicted the world is supposed to end on December 21. If the world doesn't end on December 21, you can bet the next day the malls will be overrun with Mayans trying to buy last-minute gifts. — Jay Leno

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career. — Marc Almond

Although the mortality rate was erratic, ranging from one fifth in some places to nine tenths or almost total elimination in others, the overall estimate of modern demographers has settled - for the area extending from India to Iceland - around the same figure expressed in Froissart's casual words: "a third of the world died. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom. — Samuel Johnson

I was the all-American face. — Debra Winger

First, you decide what you want specifically; and second, you decide if you're willing to pay the price to make it happen, and then pay that price. — Nelson Bunker Hunt

There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination - you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate. — Joseph Conrad

My servants put you up to this." "And what if they did? Have you seen Bernadine? The woman wields a rolling pin all day long. I'm certainly not going to refuse her," Elle said. Severin released a bark of laughter. — K.M. Shea