899 Quotes

#1. The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, primarily scurvy, while only 1,512 were killed in action.

Stephen R. Brown

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Jack Canfield

#3. Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive.

Fiona Apple

#4. I settled for a cup of coffee. Only it wasn't coffee. It was a coffee substitute made by grinding up dandelion roots. The idea was that it wouldn't keep you awake, and it's always seemed to me that the only thing coffee really has going for it is that it will keep you awake.

Lawrence Block

#5. This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges.

Anne Wilkes Tucker

#6. Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#7. Life begins with you competing in the race marked out for you

Marcelle Hinkson

#8. There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.

Travis Barker

#9. I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that l the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Anonymous

#10. If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

Al Franken

#11. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.

Pope Pius XI

#13. I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Ken Hill

#14. The fact that I have such a problem that people ... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

Werner Klemperer

#15. Loving passionately, loving fiercely, loving and taking both good and bad, and at times, the damn near impossible, provides sweet chaos, fueling the pitter patter of the heart...

Virginia Alison

#16. When things are looking up, there's no point in looking elsewhere -Agatha Swanburne

Maryrose Wood