Steamboats During The Industrial Revolution Quotes & Sayings

A nervous silence loosens tongues — Jacqueline Carey

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel

Every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18) — Alexander McCall Smith

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree. — Vikas Swarup

No one is entirely good or evil; that is what the Warrior thinks when he has a new opponent. — Paulo Coelho

My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time. — David Copperfield

In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed. — Willie Nelson

It is vital that we avoid any hint of moral superiority in our dealings with one another in the environmental movement; if it developed into factionalism it would destroy us, as factionalism has destroyed so many other progressive movements in America. — Edward Abbey

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both. — Fritjof Capra

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope. — Alexandre Dumas

Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy. — Newt Gingrich