Lord Chatham Quotes

#1. Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost-he has lost a whole continent.

David McCullough

#3. Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
Foma, of course, are lies.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.

Iain M. Banks

#6. The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable.

Josh Fox

#7. It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

Peter Kreeft

#8. Tony Blair is the best friend I've had in politics.

Gordon Brown

#9. Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us.

George R R Martin

#10. Fern's never had very good luck with animals. She smothers them with affection and care and they thank her by croaking. Fern hasn't figured out how to play hard to get.

Amy Harmon

#11. Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

Juliet Marillier

#12. I couldn't get any work in television. No one would even meet me, and I had very good agents.

Stephanie Rothman

#13. Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.

Dale Carnegie

#14. If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.

Allyson Felix

#15. Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

Paul Goldberger

#16. And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.

J.K. Rowling

#17. God loves us, and the will of love is always blessing for its loved ones.

Hannah Whitall Smith