Odabash Us Quotes & Sayings

Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race.
Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): "If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war".
Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war.
[Speech in the House of Commons, May 11,1953] — Winston S. Churchill

In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies. — Clayton M Christensen

I'm not really picky. Just as long as it's not the harder style of rap - anything that's about being on the come-up or your wealth doesn't go that well with marimbas. — Mike Tucker

The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature. — Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

Lawyers make nothing but confusion ... A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right. — Thomas Bernhard

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Imagination, which in truth
Is but another name for absolute power
And clearest insight, amplitude of mind,
And reason, in her most exalted mood. — William Wordsworth

There was a stiff bell-pull instead of a doorbell that Teddy had to yank hard for any result. They could hear a faint ringing somewhere beyond the fortress-like front door. No footsteps of anyone rushing to open it. It was a house in mourning, Teddy supposed. — Kate Atkinson

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny. — Shah Rukh Khan

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb. — Haruki Murakami

once in a pocket, a solid mechanical thrill — Lee Child

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. — Marcus Aurelius

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. — V.S. Naipaul

Situations and people are a lot like books. Always take time to read them, pause, and then read again. Make sure you are not just judging it by the cover. — Matthew Wilson