Henri Giffard Quotes

#1. What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,
what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

Douglas William Jerrold

#2. Don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can.

Ronda Rousey

#3. Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

May Sarton

#4. If this is what you do to the winner, I'd hate to see how you treat the runner up.

Anthony Horowitz

#5. You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it ... Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them?

William Tecumseh Sherman

#6. It means a lot when people understand what I'm going for.

Donna McKechnie

#7. (Jesus speaking) An awful lot of what is done in my name has nothing to do with me and is often, even if unintentional, very contrary to my purposes.

Wm. Paul Young

#8. There is
a time to live
and a time to die
but never to reject the moment.

Lao-Tzu

#9. The MacGuffin is that thing which is most important to us - that most essential thing. The audience will supply it, each member for himself.

David

#10. We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content,

Patrick Collison

#11. The explanation of evil is a hell of a lot more disappointing than that. It's blunders, people making blunders, whether it's raiding a village and killing all the inhabitants, or killing a child in a fit of rage. Mistakes. Everything is simply a matter of mistakes.

Anne Rice

#12. People are never free of trying to be content.

Murray Bookchin

#13. My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Bob Dylan

#14. Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.

Horace