Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete McCarty

A lot of fishermen are so poor and broke, they have to fish really hard now.

E. O. Wilson

Fishermen have been telling scientists what they think for years. Ted took those insights and pushed the science forward.

Jack Stephens

Fishermen have been selling their land to sportsmen for years, ... The storm is only going to speed that up by giving people another reason to leave.

Nick Furman

Fishermen are inherently reluctant to put pots in the water without an agreed-upon price. It puts them in a very weak position from a marketing standpoint.

Mike Lucas

Last year, we lost about a third of the wild salmon we'd normally sell. If the fishermen don't do well, we don't do well.

Greg Policky

No, he'll impact the fishermen more than the fish.

Jim Olson

It makes the pieces of the pie much smaller for the fishermen that don't travel.

Dario Fo

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Edward Hirsch

The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

Ed Begley, Jr.

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

David Ricardo

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

David Ricardo

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

David Ricardo

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Beth Moore

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The reason for our loving God is God.

William Shakespeare

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Bernard Ebbers

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

Mark Olson

It's expensive. If you're selling $2 corn, you can't make it.

Jim Ford

It's about getting out there and selling it. I've been trying to go to all the parents' meetings.

Donald Young

This is the top team at Compaq selling at the highs,

Don Cooper

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

Nicholas James

This is not about selling more books. We just want her to be used more in the classroom.

Aimee Mann

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

Ben Schott

For me, photography only stopped because I was selling books.

John Dilling

The town shouldn't be selling a non-conforming lot.

Bob Seger

I drive a Mustang. A 2005 five-speed GT convertible.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Maureen McCormick

It's only a traffic infraction. It's like a speeding ticket." ()

Lee Baig

They have not even a speeding ticket in their backgrounds so to make them out as cold-blooded killers is preposterous.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Franz Grillparzer

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Bernard Baruch

Financial storm definitely passed.

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Beth Moore

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Beth Moore

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

William Shakespeare

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.