Vpedal Quotes & Sayings

Blair's support for the Americans should not be seen as an aberration; on the contrary, it is closely linked to the main contours of New Labour policy. This has been a government that has majored on hyperbole, but in fact, from the outset it was hugely timid and cravenly orthodox. — Martin Jacques

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don't take kindly to thieves in Africa. — Akon

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3 — Avril Lavigne

The Sabbath rest of God is the acknowledgment that God and God's people in the world are not commodities to be dispatched for endless production and so dispatched, as we used to say, as "hands" in the service of a command economy. Rather they are subjects situated in an economy of neighborliness. All of that is implicit in the reality and exhibit of divine rest. — Walter Brueggemann

Your secret was not the craftsman's delight in process,
which doesn't distinguish work from pleasure
your way was not to exalt nor avoid
the Adamic legacy, you simply made it irrelevant:
everything faded, thinned to nothing, beside
the light which bathed and warmed, the Presence
your being had opened to. Where it shone,
there life was, and abundantly; it touched
your dullest task, and the task was easy. — Denise Levertov

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or so I fondly imagine. — Christopher Hitchens

How we spend our money reflects our true values at that moment in time. — Erik Wecks

Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored of bright new things, and too clever to get them by the usual path. — Catherynne M Valente

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get. — Andy Roddick

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. — Leonard Cohen

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. — Colley Cibber

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means. — Carl Von Clausewitz

The technology of food matters even when we barely notice it is there. From fire onward, there is a technology behind everything we eat, whether we recognize it or not. Behind every loaf of bread, there is an oven. Behind a bowl of soup, there is a pan and a wooden spoon (unless it comes from a can, another technology altogether). Behind every restaurant-kitchen foam, there will be a whipping canister, charged with N2O. — Bee Wilson

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan. — Jennifer Carpenter

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession. — Viacheslav Platonov