Wuthering Heights A2 Revision Quotes & Sayings

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline. — Carl Sagan

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet. — Swami Vivekananda

Make every day your masterpiece. — John Wooden

number of times throughout this book, you've come across the terms "delayed stomach-emptying" and "gastroparesis." As I explained in Chapter 2, elevated blood sugars for prolonged periods can impair the ability of nerves to function properly. It's very common that the nerves that stimulate the muscular activity, enzyme secretion, and acid production essential to digestion function poorly in long-standing diabetics. These changes affect the stomach, the gut, or both. Dr. Richard McCullum, a noted authority on digestion, has said that if a diabetic has any other form of neuropathy (dry feet, reduced — Richard K. Bernstein

In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman ... — Oswald Spengler

If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable. — T. Harv Eker

I'm the guy who checks the weather report every day hoping for a thunderstorm. — J. Tonzelli

On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient. — Alex Berenson

One of the golden rules of success is to treat everything like a competition. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I like to run fast but not drive. — LaDainian Tomlinson

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be. — Frances McDormand

The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant.
"May I ask you a question?"
"Yes."
"Have you ever thought you were Christ?"
"I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean. — Ray Bradbury