Fruiting Chamber Quotes & Sayings

and by mid-1781 it had caused him to conclude that France now sought a graceful exit from this stalemated war. Although he did not know it - nor would he ever learn the truth - his judgment was correct. Vergennes was prepared to consent to a long term truce uti possidetis; a diminutive United States would have existed, but Great Britain almost certainly would have retained Maine, northern Vermont, the Carolinas, Georgia, the tramontane West, and portions of New York, including New York City, and New England doubtless would be denied access to the Newfoundland fisheries.53 — John Ferling

I'm fairly comfortable in fight sequences and stuff like that. I've done a few of them. I'm comfortable with that sort of stuff as long as I'm reasonably fit, and it's fun to do actually. I'm like a kid in a toy shop doing that stuff. — Liam Neeson

When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher. — Kenny Everett

Maybe he was manfully hiding his raging desire. — Noelle Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams

A man's reach should exceed his grasp — Robert Browning

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control. — Ricky Martin

The true enemy of this bunch was not State Power but Lack of Imagination. — Haruki Murakami

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. — Albert Einstein

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it — Sara Shepard

The basis of a democratic state is liberty — Aristotle.

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own. — Andy Stanley

He was going to kill Russell's dream of a perfect logical system. — James Gleick

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth. — Petrarch