Jeopardising Quotes

#1. Fridges can be modified to nudge their internal thermostats up and down just a little in response to the main's frequency in such a way that, without ever jeopardising the temperature of your butter, they tend to take power at times that help the grid.

David J. C. MacKay

#2. Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. They will never forgive us for this Somewhere Else.

Helene Cixous

#4. If there are bullets, I'm between you and them. If you get taken, I'm hunting you down till my last breath. And if you end up in hell, I'll storm the fucking place until the fires go out.

Rebecca Zanetti

#5. You can't jump in the box, you lunatic.
"I'm so playing with the box."
[ ... ]
"Kids never want the toy, only the box

H.M. Ward

#6. Sure," she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. "What could go wrong?"
Michael's eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.
Besides everything, I mean," she said.

Rachel Caine

#7. Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.

Nicole Krauss

#8. I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Bishop

#9. I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:
18 rooms
$37,000
I'm yours
ghosts and all.

Richard Brautigan

#10. Space, man, have you no respect for science?

Isaac Asimov

#11. Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

Jillian Michaels

#12. great is the art

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.

Frank Wolf

#14. The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

Virginia Woolf

#15. In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Prince Philip