Isambard K Brunel Quotes

#1. I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

Fergus Henderson

#2. My only real job is to play well and do my job on the field. If I do that, all the other stuff will take care of itself.

Freddy Adu

#3. Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

Joyce Meyer

#4. The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

Frank Murphy

#5. I am going to design ... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Isambard K. Brunel

#6. Let us agree here today to adopt among ourselves a simple and unwritten rule. We will not rise to criticize someone else's idea unless we are prepared to offer an alternative idea of our own.

Marco Rubio

#7. The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we'd left unsaid driving us apart.

Katherine McIntyre

#8. I was a radioman when I first went into the Navy, so I learned to type by taking Morse code. So I was using the typewriter from day one. My handwriting wasn't any good anyway.

Robert Stone

#9. If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

#10. I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

Isambard K. Brunel

#11. It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

#12. In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

Carlo Collodi

#13. The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Smokey Robinson

#14. For the God with whom they had to do is the same God with whom we have to do. We could sharpen the point by saying exactly the same God; for God does not change in the least particular.

J.I. Packer