Hans Wilsdorf Quotes

#1. The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Khalil Gibran

#2. My personal opinion ... is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

Hans Wilsdorf

#3. The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless.

Amruta Patil

#4. I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Winston Churchill

#5. It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.

Hans Wilsdorf

#6. As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

Murray Kempton

#7. The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Herman Cain

#8. Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#9. I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.

Henri Barbusse

#10. And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

Nora Roberts

#11. We want to be the first in the field and Rolex should be seen as the one and only-the best.

Hans Wilsdorf

#12. The worldly life [the relative] means 'superfluous'. Instead of superfluous, people believe it to be real (of nischaya) and then they even say, 'this is indeed the way it should be, that is indeed the way it should be done.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."
No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die."
Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.

Holly Black

#14. You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

Nick Cave

#15. If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.

Jan Koum

#16. What can I say?" Poe muttered. "Chicks dig the mustache.

Kelly Creagh

#17. Feeling good in front of the coal stove in a cold day? That's good, but over there you must also feel the sorrows of the miners! In heaven, don't forget the people in hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

Clive Barker