Fownes Mittens Quotes & Sayings

Before our "company" set off, at a wink from the officer, Plumpie stood up and proposed a search. I could see that some of the others thought she was wasting our time, but our company commander cheerfully seconded her proposal. He suggested we search him first. A boy was called to do this, and found a big bunch of keys on him. Our commander acted as though he had been genuinely careless, and gave Plumpie a victorious smile. The rest of us searched each other. This roundabout way of doing things reflected a Maoist practice: things had to look as though they were the wish of the people, rather than commands from above. Hypocrisy and playacting were taken for granted. — Jung Chang

Ethiopia is the center of origin and diversity for the majority of coffee we drink. The commodification of coffee pushes farmers to grow as much as possible by whatever means possible. This has contributed to deforestation. The place where coffee was born - the area with the greatest biodiversity of coffee anywhere in the world - could disappear. No forest, no coffee. No coffee, no forest. What we lose isn't specific to Ethiopia; it impacts us all. — Preeti Simran Sethi

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star. — Eddie Marsan

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same. — Honore De Balzac

Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
[Lat., Vir bonus est quis?
Qui consulta patrum, qui leges juraque servat.] — Horace

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present. — Orrin Woodward

In this light, continuing to focus efforts on programming each device natively, encoding all the domain knowledge on these devices, may not be the best way to make use of software developers' (and architects') energies. Instead it may make more sense to leverage the network itself; to actually program the network instead of the connected devices. — Cesare Pautasso

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can. — Kristan Higgins

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person — Marilyn Manson

You don't race cars, you race the rule book — Smokey Yunick

Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation. — Mark Batterson

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art — Steve Bruce

Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier — Tom Waits