Dummelow Quotes & Sayings

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention). — Paulo Coelho

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. — Dan Lipinski

It would've been easier to die. It's not that I want to be dead now. I don't. I have a lot in my life that I get satisfaction from, that I love. But some days, especially in the beginning, it was so hard. And I couldn't help but think that it would've been so much simpler to go with the rest of them. But you - you asked me to stay. You begged me to stay. You stood over me and you made a promise to me, as sacred as any vow. — Gayle Forman

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions. — Denise Duhamel

Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand. — Tim Hawkins

Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once, can't remember who by, but they said that your friends aren't necessarily the people you like best, they're just the people who got there first. — Lisa Jewell

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour. — Ben Lovett

I know that it means very — G.K. Chesterton

Somebody once asked me if I made a lot of money, I said I made enough. He then asked why do it, if I'm only making enough. And I said I don't do what I do to be rich in my wallet, I do what I do to be rich in life. — Lisa Abu-Bakr

But no matter how intensely we desire certainty, we should understand that whether because of our limits or randomness or future unknowable confluences of events, something will inevitably come, unbidden, through that door. Some of it will be uplifting and inspiring, and some of it will be disastrous. — Ed Catmull

Obsess about customers, not competitors. — Jeff Bezos

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it. — Stanley Baldwin

My love always surrounds everyone around me. — Debasish Mridha

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders. — Sherman Alexie