Georges Haussmann Quotes & Sayings

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day. — L.M. Montgomery

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on. — Niecy Nash

The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined. — Nicholas D. Kristof

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way. — Claire Messud

The longing in a single person's heart for a wife or a husband finds its root in God's glory. — Matt Chandler

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand. — Pat Williams

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time when he arrived at his box seat in Dyche Stadium for a Northwestern football game on Boy Scout Day, and 8,000 scouts got up in the stands and screamed in cadence, 'Yea, yea, Big Al. Yea, yea, Big Al.' — Saul Alinsky

The exuberant Husky crew gingerly hoisted Walling out of the shell and sent him off to the hospital. Astonished fans and journalists gathered around them on the dock, peppering them with questions: Was the University of Washington in the District of Columbia? Where exactly was Seattle, anyway? Were any of them really lumberjacks? — Daniel James Brown

Sam ran a hand over his low cut dark hair. "You are kind of a buzzkill. And current circumstances do not call for a buzzkill," he explained. — L. Taylor

Living was okay, but it wasn't the breaths people took that measured a life. It was the moments that took those breaths away that mattered the most. And Dev did that every time he looked at her. Naked or not. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Everybody wants attention and admiration. Nobody wants to be criticized. The sweetest sound in the English language is the sound of a person's own name. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Let the other person save face. — Alice Schroeder

There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious. — Chrissie Wellington

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed. — Dan Barber

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other. — Ben Shapiro