Shirlenes Properties Quotes & Sayings

If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts. — Honore De Balzac

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. — Willie Brown

The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community. — Michael Scheuer

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work. — Peter Higgs

For me, the fall of the Wall came at the exact right time because, I mean, I was 17, basically I hadn't missed anything, unlike the generation of my parents, who were deprived of a lot of things. They couldn't travel, and they couldn't really get ahead in their professional careers. So for me, it was perfect timing. — Tom Wlaschiha

Science is the kind of sacred cow which theology was five hundred years ago ... — John Lukacs