Lady Violet Dowager Countess Of Grantham Quotes & Sayings

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest black hole, so that none of its atoms would ever contaminate this particular universe again. I thought that last part was overkill. — John Scalzi

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain. — Wendell Willkie

What is a soul?" Arseny asked.
It is what the Lord breathes into the body, what distinguishes us from rocks and plants. The soul makes us living beings, O Arseny. I compare the soul to a flame that originates in an earthly candle but has not earthly nature as it strives skyward, toward its kindred elements — Evgenij Vodolazkin

When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing. (p.90) — Natalie Goldberg

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark. — Tom Peters

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself. — Barbara Walters

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established. — Shinzo Abe

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. — Albert Schweitzer

That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well. — Warren Buffett

Historic American Buildings Survey - HABS for short - was one of FDR's greatest New Deal investments. Jobless folk fanned out across the country, seeking old buildings, photographing them and sketching their floor plans. Many of the structures they recorded in the 1930s were caught in the act of falling down. Some of them were documented in no other place. — Mary Anna Evans

The consequences are not trivial: It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one's actions by fitting some logic to them. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Europe is ... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure. — Margaret Thatcher