Dodenhoff Robert Quotes & Sayings

And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation ... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them ... — Michel De Montaigne

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle. — Ravi Zacharias

Investments in women are positively correlated to growth, prosperity, stability, democracy, health - and vital to our national security. We cannot write off the talent of half the world and expect to confront our challenges. — Melanne Verveer

Bill C-9 was supposed to be a budget bill, but it came with innumerable measures that had little or nothing to do with the nation's finances. It was, as critics put it, the advance of the Harper agenda by stealth, yet another abuse of the democratic process. The bill was a behemoth. It was 904 pages, with 23 separate sections and 2,208 individual clauses ...
As a Reform MP, [Stephen Harper] ... said of one piece of legislation that 'the subject matter of the bill is so diverse that a single vote on the content would put members in conflict with their own principles.' The bill he referred to was 21 page long
or 883 pages shorter than the one he was now putting before Parliament. — Lawrence Martin

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti. — Edmund Hillary

I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism. — Dean Smith

Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow. — Alice Hoffman

I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language. — Patrick Stump

As a designer you have to just do whatever you want to do. The second I came to terms with that, it transformed my work. — Jason Wu

There is always an element of play in form, however 'serious' the expression. — Marilyn Hacker

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. — Janine Di Giovanni

It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is. — Richard Parks Bland

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet. — Carl Honore

That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No question. — Joseph Epstein

I could never see his face, didn't know his name but I remembered how he smelled, what every touch of his hands felt like all over my body, how his lips tasted... whoa! Nympho alert!! — C.L. Foster