Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Zinsser

Most writers sow adjectives almost unconsciously into the soil of their prose to make it more lush and pretty. The sentences become longer and longer as they fill up with stately elms and graceful boughs and frisky kittens and sleepy lagoons.

Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Friedrich Schiller

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

Novalis

Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .

Eric Ries

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Ovid

Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

Pat Buchanan

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the costs of global hegemony?

Ho Chi Minh

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Rob Brown

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

Rebecca West

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Richard M. Nixon

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.

Wallace Stevens

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

Ursula K. Le Guin

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Saul Alinsky

History is a relay of revolutions.

William Randolph Hearst

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

Wendell Phillips

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Lynne Truss

In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

Joseph Heller

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Marc Ash

This in not just a condemnation of the Holocaust. It is a condemnation of all the atrocities in the past and a reminder that terror still surrounds us.

Adrian Mitchell

It's about sitting faithfully in England while thousands of miles away terrible atrocities are being committed in our name.

Joan Roscoe

The bus boycott was instrumental in the desegregation in the community. It is unbelievable the atrocities people were living with in that day. The book tells of some of the harrowing experiences they had but I believe most of the boycotters knew the risk of their participation.

Wang Yi

These monuments are playing a role of textbooks that helps Japanese people learn about the wartime history and Japanese aggressors' atrocities over the Chinese people,

Jan Schakowsky

As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.

Nick Parsons

The responsibility for yesterday's atrocities in Madrid is determining the very-near fate of the dollar.

William Doyle

What happened that day, the rescue attempts and the generosity, what they've done, that's what should be there, period, ... Not talking about atrocities or blame America.