Miska China Quotes & Sayings

A man aboard one of the warships took a photograph, believed to be the last ever taken of the Lusitania, — Anonymous

Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about - like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow. — Philip Yancey

This young world desires that there should arrive or appear from the outside-not happiness-but misfortune; and their imagination is already busy beforehand to form a monster out of it, so that they may afterwards be able to fight with a monster. If these distress-seekers felt the power to benefit themselves, to do something for themselves from internal sources, they would also understand how to create a distress of their own, specially their own, from internal sources. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Market share is king. You cannot afford to replace lost market share. — Frank Perdue

Time has no meaning to the heart. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is in the nature of love to bind itself";2 vows are love's native language. Love that is mute in the language of promises, though it may be called love, is not love but something else. — J. Budziszewski

What is important is any amount of breast milk that can be given to the baby is better than none, and breastfeeding is one of the many challenges along the way of being a great mother. — Simko Pharm. D., Lauren

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. — Herman Melville

Do not be surprised if you fall every day and do not surrender. Stand your ground bravely and you may be sure that your guardian angel will respect your endurance. A fresh, warm wound is easier to heal than those that are old, neglected, and festering, and that need extensive treatment, surgery, bandaging and cauterization. Long neglect can render many of them incurable. However, all things are possible with God — John Climacus

And hopefully nothing will happen. But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when. — David Quammen

I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I write a page every day, maybe 500 words. It could be about something I'm specifically worried about in the new novel; it could be a question I want answered; it could be something that's going on in my personal life. I just use it as an exercise. — Elizabeth George

You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep. — Feist

It has been estimated that there are between 1 billion and 30 billion planets in our galaxy, and about 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Knocking a few noughts off for reasons of ordinary prudence, a billion billion is a conservative estimate of the number of available planets in the universe. Now, suppose the origin of life, the spontaneous arising of something equivalent to DNA, really was a quite staggeringly improbable event. Suppose it was so improbable as to occur on only one in a billion planets. A grant-giving body would laugh at any chemist who admitted that the chance of his proposed research succeeding was only one in a hundred. But here we are talking about odds of one in a billion. And yet . . . even with such absurdly long odds, life will still have arisen on a billion planets - of which Earth, of course, is one. — Richard Dawkins

I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model. — Danica McKellar

Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades. — Benjamin Stone