Edgar Cahn Quotes & Sayings

The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock. — Patrick F. McManus

We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range. — Baba Kalyani

A lot of us think we're invincible ... but we have to start putting ourselves on the to-do list. — Giuliana Rancic

In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, the winter has not killed us again! — Leonard Cohen

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom. — Michel De Montaigne

This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls "relentlessly pleasant."22 This method requires smiling frequently, expressing appreciation and concern, invoking common interests, emphasizing larger goals, and approaching the negotiation as solving a problem as opposed to taking a critical stance.23 Most negotiations involve drawn-out, successive moves, so women need to stay focused ... and smile. — Sheryl Sandberg

Work and Pray always been a good combination. — Amen Muffler

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind. — David Pajo

You have your thoughts and I have mine. This is the fact and you can't change it even if you kill me. — Ba Jin

I have a Maltese Shih Tzu. I'm notorious for dressing her up in sweaters. — Caroline Sunshine

You are born to build the society, not to follow it. — Abhijit Naskar

That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things. — Gayle Forman

If I were single and had my career, I'd be happy. You have to be happy with what you're doing. — Eva Longoria

Bad promises are better broken than kept. — Abraham Lincoln

The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about. — El-P