Alleghanies Quotes

#1. If some volcano in the Alleghanies threatens North Carolina with a disaster similar to that of Martinique, buried beneath the outpourings of Mont Pelee, then these people must leave their homes.

Jules Verne

#2. A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

John Mearsheimer

#3. It's not records I chase, it's self-improvement. And that cannot be done by taking it easy.

Chrissie Wellington

#4. You cannot know if you will be successful or not. You can only prepare for battle and it must be done with all of your heart and with all of your consciousness. In that manner, you will have an edge.

Sun Tzu

#5. A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Andrew Stanton

#6. It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

Judith Viorst

#7. Bobby is the most misunderstood, misquoted celebrity walking the face of this earth

Yasser Seirawan

#8. I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do.
At age 60.

Paul Dirac

#9. If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.

Lebbeus Woods

#10. Speaking of jeans, good Lord, the man's ass was a bona fide work of art. As he strode toward the nearby counter to place his order, his work boots not making a single sound, those tight buns set off a choir of rejoicing angels in her head.

Tessa Bailey

#11. American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

Barack Obama

#12. Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essense they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.

Shunryu Suzuki

#13. Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.

Pierce Brosnan