Public Bidding Quotes & Sayings

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be? — Laozi

Historically, and notably in the 1905 Russo-Japanese war, the Japanese army's conduct towards defeated enemies had been characterised by mercy. The ruling Tokyo "control group" changed all that, instilling a culture of ruthlessness indistinguishable from barbarism into its armed forces; in 1934 the Ministry of War published a pamphlet which ennobled conflict as "the father of creation and mother of culture. Rivalry for supremacy does for the state what struggle against adversity does for the individual." The Allies now began to discover the significance of this merciless vision for those who fell into enemy hands. Before — Max Hastings

There is, however, one feature that I would like to suggest should be incorporated in the machines, and that is a 'random element.' Each machine should be supplied with a tape bearing a random series of figures, e.g., 0 and 1 in equal quantities, and this series of figures should be used in the choices made by the machine. This would result in the behaviour of the machine not being by any means completely determined by the experiences to which it was subjected, and would have some valuable uses when one was experimenting with it. — Alan Turing

Marple closed her eyes and fell asleep. It felt good. She felt like a kid again. She'd waited a long time to feel like that. It felt like the universe was folding in on itself. It felt like origami birds being born. - from THE IMMORTALS ACT THEIR AGE — Eric Beeny

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune. — Thomas Carlyle

Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding. — Hans Fritzsche

Sometimes when I lie on your warm chest
And hear your every happy sigh
I gaze into your two kind eyes
And wonder, 'Who is that? — Francesco Marciuliano

Kindness will always attract kindness. — Sophocles

These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government. — Theodore Roosevelt

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life. — Nick Vujicic

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. — Albert Perry

They always have good coffee here," Ebenezar said a few moments later. "And they don't call it funny names," I said. "It's just coffee. Not frappalattegrandechino. — Jim Butcher

I don't make a film to make people like it. I make a film to make people think — Nelofer Pazira

Rest and be thankful. — William Wordsworth

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. — William McIlvanney

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783) — George Washington