Jecfa Database Quotes & Sayings

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand

(About sweeping) ...
What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends. — Terry Pratchett

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously. — Gordon Smith

When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models. — Donald Miller

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. — John James Audubon

Oh God, I could be bounded in a nutshell - ' He continued, 'And count myself a king of infinite space - ' 'Were it not that I have bad dreams,' she whispered. He knew how she felt. It was the way he felt himself, sometimes, if he woke in the small hours, at three a.m., a time when the world seemed empty and stripped of comforting illusion. A time when you knew you were a mote, transient and fragile in a vast universe, a candle flame in an empty hall. Luckily the sun always came up, people stirred, and you got on with stuff that distracted you from the reality. The — Terry Pratchett

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve. — Douglas Horton

Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly. — Donald Shoup

Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out. — Mary Karr

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent. — Dennis Weaver

Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. — John Lyly

I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists. — Walter Cronkite

Only the men and the wind are completely free — Jean Sasson