We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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JIMMY BUFFETT The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey ...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-o...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human bei...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY It seems to me highly improbable that women are going to realize their human potential without alien...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY Power is the ability not to have to please.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world
ELIZABETH JANEWAY In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD We like to arrive early and get comfortable. We want to be sure we are prepared.
LAURA ROUNTREE dont let your abuser win ,,,, brake the silence they have no right to get away with it xx
GRACE And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS We are very excited to get Elizabeth. She has a lot of experience and is an excellent player.
EVELYN BEAN When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along ...
SAMANTHA POWER Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
JAMES BUCHAN We offered it, but they rejected it, ... They have no use for it.
TOM LEIGHTON People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others,...
STEWART STAFFORD Winner dont do different but they do differently
SHIV KHERA Winners dont do different things,they do things differently
SHIV KHERA Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN In Life Crises exibits The Real character of a person.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) You never really know a person until CRISES comes.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around...
GARY F EVANS... For Opening Day last year, almost 22,000 fans arrived at the ballpark within an hour of the first pi...
JOHN ALLEN Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
LEE MYUNG-BAK I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to ...
AIDAN QUINN Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU Winners dont do different things
They do things differently
SHIV KERA Crises should not make you dream less,instead crises should make you dream harder & bigger.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Thank you, Elizabeth, ... Or as we call her, Biff.
SUE SIMMONS We have seen it time and time again where they [unions] take money for political purposes and dont g...
ERIC BEACH And they said if we help with the crisis, they would do a lot of positive acts. After we helped in t...
AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the...
GUSTAVE LE BON We don't know how long it will be before they arrive back at their Smyrna Airport base.
RANDY HARRIS Elizabeth
C.E. COOK If anyone was in my shoes and they were offered what I was offered, they wouldn't turn it down eithe...
PAUL WHITEMAN And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH Just when we were wondering why women dont get to become undertakers we noticed its the maneuverings...
JOSEPH ANNANG SOWAH When students arrive they often are lined up to come in and get a pop or two for breakfast. I'd rath...
JEFF HESS we dont walk through our legs,we walk through our minds
RAHUL JAISWAL These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're runn...
J.D. SALINGER Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency...
J.D. ROBB Financial crises require governments.
TIMOTHY GEITHNER People dont care what you know until they know what you care
JOHN C. MAXWELL They wanted the school to be farther south so we offered to make the swap.
TONY IORIO Everyone of them is staying, ... They dont want to go back. They have told me that.
AMY COLLINS If we hurry, we'll arrive before sunset.
HECTOR HERRERA Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout ...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH was a conditional offer So we dont deal with that.
HARRY THOMAS If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
USAIN BOLT Crises are challenges, not calamities.
GUY VERHOFSTADT Crises are harbingers of evolution.
BRUCE LIPTON We have to arrive in Barcelona and really concentrate because they are a really strong team. Anythin...
FABRIZIO MICCOLI I told Elizabeth,
JOE BRYANT When some one messes up dont give them too much rope because people tend to get creative.
ANDONI GARCIA Love is a stranger and dont Live here,, and it dont even Visit
KALUM JOHNSON (KDOG) When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship...
STEVEN MAGEE Crises is the code that can open the gene of success for some.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Crises is a period not to mourn but to restrategise for greater success.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Crises period brings many opportunities to the highly positive because, during this period there wil...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never over curse crises for opportunity may be the cause.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If they came over here in the next five minutes and offered me what I wanted, yeah, I could get some...
KEVIN MILLWOOD Dont fear the darkness, for we find ourselves the most within.
MAXWELL MORGAN INGRAM She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth ...
JANE SMILEY The De-escalation of Nuclear Crises.
JOE NATION North Dakotans have opened their wallets, their homes and their hearts to the victims of Hurricane K...
JOHN HOEVEN We know match officials are offered money or anything to influence matches and they can accept it.
FANNY AMUN True love is you. You cant love someone else if you dont love yourself.. Get to know yourself.
NERISSA IRVING They don't all show up at once, but they can be quite aggressive to climbers, so we want to make sur...
JEFF BRADYBAUGH In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means...
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY They offered us Tommy Lee, they didn't offer us Snow White,
HARVEY PERLMAN I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.
ESAI MORALES From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER From native simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER People dont see you for what you think, they see you for what you say
SIMPLETON Be your own kind dont go around and chase others and do what they do.
NADIRA AHMED Our minds have the need to know. When we dont know we make assumptions - they make us feel safer tha...
DON MIGUEL RUIZ The trouble with people is not that they dont know but that they know so much that aint so.
JOSH BILLINGS You have more to fear from those who think they know you,Than from those who know they dont.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. realists are only realists if they dont dream ,dreamers can be more than dreamers if they achieve th...
JOHN THE DREAMER We basically offered, as backup, a job in the other diner [in Guilford] in case they have trouble.
GEORGETTE MAIORANO They have offered a price even less than the present domestic price, how can we agree to that?
MAHMUDUR RAHMAN We offered them a cap on insurance (costs for employees), and they wanted more and more and more.
JEFF MEYERS I dont want to be broke down I want to be built up and vice versa I dont want to break down but buil...
HEATHER MONTANO Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really ...
JEAN VANIER Crises are a part of life’s equation
SUNDAY ADELAJA one of the world's most neglected crises.
JAN EGELAND In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The RDR is tired of being the scapegoat for successive administrations when they are faced with cris...
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my world just...
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ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Don
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH