Lightweight Rowing Quotes & Sayings

Litigation only makes lawyers fat. — Wilbur Smith

The rights of men, that is to say, the natural rights of mankind, are indeed sacred things; and if any public measure is proved mischievously to affect them, the objection ought to be fatal to that measure, even if no charter at all could be set up against it. If these natural rights are further affirmed and declared by express covenants, if they are clearly defined and secured against chicane, against power, and authority, by written instruments and positive engagements, they are in a still better condition: they partake not only of the sanctity of the object so secured, but of that solemn public faith itself, which secures an object of such importance ... The things secured by these instruments may, without any deceitful ambiguity, be very fitly called the chartered rights of men. — Edmund Burke

You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church
But let your poison be your cure. — Louis MacNeice

I have a really powerful urge to see things work. — Bill Budge

Her room was like a cage, but it was better than the city. — S.M. Reine

We stayed in some pretty shabby places in Europe. — Phil Collins

I was a feral child. Always on the go. My mother used to sew bells into my dresses so they would know where I was. — Sophie Kennedy Clark

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. — Douglas Sirk

We're finally learning that it is not an either-or situation ... Feelings and learning and emotion are all very integral to each other. — Linda Lantieri

What we call love is in its essence reverence for life. — Albert Schweitzer

C++ is a pile of crap. — Theo De Raadt

What doesn't KILL me makes me stronger ... Except for the extinction of COFFEE ... that might kill me. — Tanya Masse

Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours ... — Gabriel Thy

Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too. — Martin Schulz