P 274 Livy Quotes & Sayings

According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion. — Adam Smith

the world is one great web, and a man dare not touch a single strand lest all the others tremble. — George R R Martin

I think the only thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, whatever I did, I wanted to travel with my work, an adventurous spirit. — Cate Blanchett

Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut. — Branch Rickey

As a child, when I first heard the story of Creation, I'd closed my eyes and pictured the earth as a ball rolling off the palm of God and into dark space, then drifting around until it found its home in sunny orbit. Never perfect, but ever spinning, and holding on to her course, despite it all. — Ann Howard Creel

I live on the water and I have jet skis. Skiing is my biggest thing, I've been skiing since I was five-years-old. — Cedric Gervais

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers. — Anne Lamott

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin. — Mads Mikkelsen

Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it. — Bill Murray

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university. — Jose Manuel Barroso

I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge at them, climb over them to show them you have them beat, circle round them, and generally play with them; but clouds can on occasion hold their own against the aviator, and many a pilot has found himself emerging from a cloud not on a level keel. — Charles Rumney Samson

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. — Tom Allen

How many times had I begged Mom to divorce him already? — Justina Chen