Habemus Presidente Quotes

#1. But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

John Abizaid

#2. American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Thomas Friedman

#3. I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.

Raymond E. Feist

#4. Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

Friedrich Schiller

#5. I had to admit it was a nice backside. She caught me looking at her and hurriedly turned away. "Defending my honor," Phillip asked.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Jack Kerouac

#8. Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

John Lanchester

#9. The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

David Hume

#10. I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

Edmund Hillary

#11. No armor. No buckles. Only a few layers of cotton and ten feet of parlor separated his mouth from her breasts.

Meljean Brook

#12. Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam.

Kristi Funk

#13. You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.

Elizabeth Naramore

#14. Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.

Horace