Wicketsto Quotes & Sayings

Oh, who would choose to be a traveler?
That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map. — Arthur Guiterman

You and I both know that as long as our representatives are held hostage to their funders - and their funders are not all of us - our system will not work — Lawrence Lessig

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? — Albert Einstein

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made. — Edward Kennedy

Germany's greatness makes it impossible for her to do without the ocean, but the ocean also proves that even in the distance, and on its farther side, without Germany and the German Emperor, no great decision dare henceforth be taken. — Wilhelm II

Change the world, give a chance and stay on your principles.. — Shahid Islam

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes. — Jane Goodall

You draw something ... and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are praised, how come?
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It's something to do with time ... You got a star because you spent more time on the second drawing. And spent the time in a particular way. We think they have a plan, and that it has to do with time.
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There's no such thing as better ... The second one just fitted in better with their plan. — Peter Hoeg

I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed anybody. The fun of playing a brilliant musician is that I don't actually play any instruments. — Eric McCormack

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day? — Ralph Hodgson

If you fall out of love, remember the love and not the fall. If all you focus on is the fall, the fall will swallow you because it will grow. Focus is water and sunlight. It causes growth. Recalculate all the wrongs that have been done to you and examine the benefits that happened as a result of them. Be grateful for the bad things that happened and were in some way responsible for the good things that followed. Did you catch that be? Be. Thankful. Because this one can slip right past you so easily. — Augusten Burroughs

Tell them to stand in the shop for even an hour and you'd think they'd been asked to reverse the cosmos. — Sunjeev Sahota

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land. — Mahatma Gandhi

...no learner can afford to be dependent on the teacher for everything that needs to be noticed, so teachers have to teach children to look for possibilities. — Peter Johnston

I though I made it clear that harming you isn't high on my list of priorities." He shifts her in his hold so that while he is speaking, he is looking directly into her eyes. "And even if it was - which it isn't - I certainly wouldn't go about hurting you in such a half-coccked way, nor would I do it when your back was turned. As with most other things, I'd do it face-to-face and with finesse. — Nenia Campbell

Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria. — Tam David-West