Meditarranean Quotes & Sayings

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man. — Alfred Harmsworth

I'd rather you said 'I love you' because you were so full of love for me that you couldn't keep it in. — Rainbow Rowell

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. — William Labov

Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys. — Frank Layden

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident ... Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work. — Thomas A. Edison

[ ... ] marriage is one thing, and love is another ... You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques ... — Andre Maurois

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility. — William Shatner

Let your courage and determination be the vehicle that drives you, and takes you anywhere in this life you wanna go. — Robert M. Hensel

What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. — Nancy Pelosi

Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. — Rebecca Skloot

Egypt was rich in copper ore, which, as the base of bronze, had been valuable through the entire Meditarranean world. By 1150 B.C., however, the Iron Age had succeeded the bronze Age. Egypt had no iron and so lost power in the Asiatic countries where the ore existed; the adjustment of its economy to the new metal caused years of inflation and contributed to the financial distress of the central government. The pharaoh could not meet the expenses of his government; he had no money to pay the workers on public buildings, and his servants robbed him at every opportunity. Still a god in theory, he was satirized in literature and became a tool of the oligarchy. During the centuries after the twelfth B.C., the Egyptian state disintegrated into local units loosely connected by trade. Occasional spurts of energy interrupted the decline, but these were short-lived and served only to illuminate the general passivity. — Norman F. Cantor

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way. — Ron Eglash