Wuerttembergische Quotes & Sayings

This is true of any device that uses power, which is a handy thing to know. For example, people worry about leaving disconnected chargers plugged into the wall for fear that they're draining power. Are they right? Heat flow analysis provides a simple rule of thumb: If an unused charger isn't warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny of electricity a day. For a small smartphone charger, if it's not warm to the touch, it's using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device. — Randall Munroe

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation. — Adlai E. Stevenson

That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. — Alexander Pope

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No one can ever foresee the future Sonya. You can only judge what's up ahead based on the conditions of the present. Remember that. — Lauren Lola

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me. — Gina Greenlee

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems. — Story Musgrave

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s. — Jay Parini

Of all the opportunities my priesthood authority affords, there is none grander than the privilege of being in one of our temples and representing the Master in officiating in the marriage of two of His worthy, righteous children. — M. Russell Ballard

Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun, — Jules Verne

People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing. — Todd Lieberman