Friday, August 7, 2009

Richard Adams Watership Down Famous Quotes

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
~Author : Richard Adams Watership Down Famous Quotes

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
~Author : James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr Inspirational Sayings

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
~Author : Adam Clayton Jr Powell Nice Quotes

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
~Author : Lois McMaster Bujold Memory 1996 Great Sayings

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
~Author : Susanna Moodie Meaningful Sayings

Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
~Author : William A Smith Wise Quotes

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
~Author : Homer Motivational Sayings

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
~Author : Bertrand Russell Famous Quotes

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
~Author : Lyndon B Johnson Inspirational Sayings

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