Sparrowhawk International Quotes & Sayings

If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse. — Max Brooks

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account. — Aesop

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual ... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously. — Howard Gardner

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees. — Virgil Thomson

I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions and no one asked otherwise that I would lead this the way I thought best and I would speak the truth as we found it. — David Kay

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age. — Richard Armour

The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully. — Vannevar Bush

He was hard and tough and wiry - just the sort that won't say die -
There was courage in his quick impatient tread;
And he bore the badge of gameness in his bright and fiery eye,
And the proud and lofty carriage of his head. — A.B. Paterson

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company. — Michael Ian Black

Everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition. — Nicholas Sparks

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. — Thomas Jones

By the age of eleven it was . . . too late for the piano and the violin. — Jasper Rees

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Overcome anger with peace. Overcome evil with good. Overcome greed with generosity. Overcome liars with truth. — Juan Mascaro