Locarno Pact Quotes & Sayings

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal to develop, to industrialize our country so rapidly and so successfully - now it's clearly passed its usefulness. It is keeping us from achieving the ideal society that we should have. We say industry must produce to improve the quality of life for all our people. — Benjamin Spock

Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real. — Elliott Abrams

Life is scary, I admit, but we do not have anything to fear. Christ is ultimately in control and will take us on the ultimate adventure if we allow Him to guide our footsteps. — Beau Jason McGlynn

If you can think of life, for a moment, as a large house with a nursery, living and dining rooms, bedrooms, study, and so forth, all unfamiliar and bright, the chapters which follow are, in a way, like looking through the windows of this house. Certain occupants will be glimpsed only briefly. Visitors come and go. At some windows you may wish to stay longer, but alas. As with any house, all within cannot be seen. — James Salter

Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request. — Dalai Lama

If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you. — Natalie Goldberg

I like Pique a lot. He has class. He knows how to defend and also how to score. He is perfect in a duo with Carles Puyol. — Paolo Maldini

I believe in absolute freedom of conscience for all men and equality of all churches, all sects and all beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of church and state and in the strict enforcement of the Constitution that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof I believe that no tribunal of any church has any power to make any decree of any force in the law of the land, other than to establish the status of its own communicants within its own church. — Al Smith

Certainly on this planet it is not apparent that there are beings more intelligent than humans, although a case can be made for dolphins and whales, and in fact if humans succeed in destroying themselves with nuclear weapons, a case can be made that ALL other animals are smarter than humans. — Carl Sagan

If there's labour shortages, we issue work permits. It's as simple as that. — Nigel Farage

As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle. — Nick Lowe

Liars hate silence, so they often try to fill it up by talking more than they need to. They provide far more information than was needed or asked for. — Travis Bradberry

Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity. — Debasish Mridha

If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me. — Banks

And the souls in Plato riding up to heaven in a two-horse chariot would go in a Ford car now,' she — D.H. Lawrence