Gunboats For Sale Quotes & Sayings

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies — Henry Paulson

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast. — John Berger

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured. — Ellen Key

Don't worry. It's just a flesh wound. — David Letterman

The beliefs are almost always the same; it's just that the histories are different. Everybody wants to believe
in a higher power. Everybody wants to belong to something bigger than themselves, and everybody wants company in doing that. — David Levithan

A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. — Isaac D'Israeli

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory. — Gracia Martore

[Mandela] subsequently used words that never left me: 'Because you hold a particular position, doesn't mean that you are more important that anyone else. Your time is not more valuable that anybody else's time. If you are late you show that you have no respect for another person's time and therefore no respect for other people because you consider yourself to be more important. — Zelda La Grange

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars. — Joan Collins

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care. — Julie Bishop

Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life. — Debasish Mridha

Nonethless it had been a castle, with all that this implies: it had had towering walls and turrets, beams as great as trees, arched doorways wide enough for processions to pass through, ceilings so cavernous that owls nested in them. It had had wings and ramparts and thin windows from which to shoot arrows, internal courtyards, banquet rooms, hidden doors, secret passages. It had had a chapel and, in its bowels, a dungeon. It housed sculptures and paintings, tapestries and cushions, carpets and carvings, its fortressed heart had been clad in glit, silver, glass, gold, damask, ivory, ermine. — Sonya Hartnett

Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting. — Deyth Banger

These were well-recognized code words in the mystery cults, which meant the same thing there as they clearly do for Clement here: 'babes' were Christians not yet inducted into the higher mysteries, while the 'mature' had been, and thus knew teachings that other Christians did not. But Clement also indicates in the above quotes that there were also teachings that 'babes' were privy to that non-Christians (the 'profane') were not to be told. — Richard C. Carrier