Liebrecht Excavating Quotes

#1. Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven.

David Platt

#3. The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. I can't leave him. I made a promise." I start to explain it, but I don't even know how to begin. How do I put it into words? It isn't possible. It's like locating the starting point of a circle. Or finding the first link in a silver chain. "I ran one time," I finally say. "I'm not running again.

Rick Yancey

#5. Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.

Jay Samit

#6. The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

John Olver

#7. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins

#8. I think the general's job is harder than the painter's; canvas doesn't fight back, after all.

Django Wexler

#9. ... I'm not fixable.

Samantha Towle

#10. We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

Lin Yutang

#11. Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

Bassem Youssef

#12. Never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but pneumonic man who is your patient

William Withey Gull