Pragul De Semnificatie Quotes & Sayings

The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary. — Adam Smith

She used to suffer these intense bouts of homesickness in her own bedroom. When she was very small, she would wake up tearing at her bedspread and shrieking, "I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" Which was distressing to all of us, of course, because she was home. — Karen Russell

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper. — Gerhard Richter

Victory comes late
And is held low to freezing lips
Too rapt with frost
To take it — Emily Dickinson

There is a sort of mythology that grows up about what happened, which is different from what really did happen. — Peter Higgs

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound. — Sara Bareilles

A man becomes the creature of his uniform. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

Every loss of life is terrible. — George H. W. Bush

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. — John Ensign

Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word. — John F. Kennedy

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be. — Debby Boone

[Mahatma] Ghandi said in a world with so many hungry people it just makes sense that God would come as food. God sent the living bread and the living water in a world where there is so much thirst and so much hunger. — Shane Claiborne

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil. — William Ellery Channing