Plimsoll Day Quotes & Sayings

He who controls the Central Highlands controls South Vietnam. - Vietnamese military maxim — Harold G. Moore

Le me try to be enough for you. — Krista Ritchie

After a war, the silencing of arms is not enough. Peace means respecting all rights. You can't respect one of them and violate the others. When a society doesn't respect the rights of its citizens, it undermines peace and leads it back to war. — Maria Julia Hernandez

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day. — Benjamin Franklin

It looks simple to come up with a tablet that works, but it is not, ... In order to have the power and portability you need, you need power. The screen is the part of the device that uses the most power. — Esther Dyson

You're supposed to take a second if life is going well, to enjoy it and not just move on with the rest of your day worrying about the next thing. And it's a really trite point in some ways. But it's bizarre how little I had done it at various points in my life. — Domhnall Gleeson

The characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone. — Jean Genet

Good hips. Breed like cow, strong like bull, dumb like ox. Hitch to plow when horse dies. — Mercedes Lackey

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. — Vanessa Hudgens

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done. — Ayn Rand

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence. — Yo-Yo Ma

It is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

First I have a think, and then I put a line around it. — Roger Fry

I DON'T WANT YOUR GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!" I yelled to the figure behind the door. — Mike Schmidt

He doesn't have the words, so he does practical things instead. — Ann Aguirre