Shaper Machine Quotes & Sayings

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. — Francesco Petrarca

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye. — Dani Shapiro

Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis. — Nancy Gibbs

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears. — Eugene Ormandy

When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart ... — Patrick Rothfuss

Earth, withal, is a Body, like our own, with its network of Points, dispos'd along its Meridians, - much as our medicine in China has identified, upon the Human body, a like set of Lines invisible, upon which, bead wise, are strung Points, where the Flow of Chee may be beneficially strengthen'd by insertions of Gold Needles. — Thomas Pynchon

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers. — Philip French

If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood! — Eda LeShan

Anorexics are the best liars in the world. You do anything to keep control. You place people into separate categories, those you trust, those you don't, those you can confide in and those whom you lie to. But of course the reality is that underneath it all, you are lying to yourself all the time. — Peter Barham

Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience. — Theodore Roosevelt

Be stimulated to become significant. This might be your back-slap moment. New-born babies born with weak signs of life are given a slap on the back to "stimulate" them. It is a knock to wake them up to the reality that they must now take charge. In this world, they have to do their own breathing and their own eating otherwise they will not survive. It's the same in your adulthood and your quest for success, you must take charge because no one will wake up every day to do things for you and make a success out of a life of excuses and laziness. — Archibald Marwizi

The United Nations is useless ... and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition. — Antonio De Oliveira Salazar