Oiling Sewing Quotes & Sayings

If Adenauer were here with us in the sauna, we could see for ourselves that Germany is and will remain divided but also that Germany never will rise again. — Nikita Khrushchev

Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist. — Kelley Armstrong

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part? — Thomas Jefferson

Most people in this world are a continuity, very few become an opportunity and the rarest of them all, evolve to be a possibility. — Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then. — James Young

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. — Sara Paretsky

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow. — Kofi Annan

Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves. — Simon Mawer

But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you. — Martine Murray

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there. — Drew Gilpin Faust

It was difficult for Rumfoord to take Billy seriously, since Rumfoord had so long considered Billy a repulsive non-person who would be much better off dead. Now, with Billy speaking clearly and to the point, Rumfoord's ears wanted to treat the words as a foreign language that was not worth learning. "What did he say?" said Rumfoord. Lily had to serve as an interpreter. "He said he was there," she explained. "He was where?" "I don't know," said Lily. "Where were you?" she asked Billy. "Dresden," said Billy. — Kurt Vonnegut

Who hears music, feels his solitude
Peopled at once. — Robert Browning