Statistical Birthday Quotes & Sayings

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

until they were ready. Charles wasn't prepared to give her details, at least that much was clear. She could continue pressing him and they could — Michele Bekemeyer

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. — Charles De Gaulle

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is
the strong horse that pulls the whole cart. — Winston S. Churchill

When we ask bureaucrats to identify who is responsible for fixing anything, they reassure us that there are 'procedures in place.' — Michel Faber

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love. — Jane Goodall

I know love,"
Says the littlest one.
"Love is like a flower."
"Why is love a flower?
Little one tell me."
"Love is a flower
For the sweetness it gives
Before it dies away. — Guy Gavriel Kay

There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know what it is about me, but even though I'm happy on the surface, there's something there, I guess. So, it all comes from wherever it comes from. I really don't know where that is. — Don McLean

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love. — PJ Harvey

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world. — H.G.Wells

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. — Gypsy Rose Lee

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. — Robert Half

I am deeply concerned about America. — Todd Akin

The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist. — Josef Koudelka

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India. — H.G.Wells