Mildred Cable Quotes

#1. When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. The earth is a planet that contains living things; I am a planet that contains living dreams! The earth revolves around the sun; I revolve around my passion!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. I don't put myself under pressure.

Usain Bolt

#4. He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that.

Nick Harkaway

#5. When there's nothing else you can do, breathe slower. There's no way it can hurt, and it might help.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.

Mildred Cable

#8. It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Bernard Berenson

#9. Every Friendship in my life is as a Gift and have more value then every Pearl in this World, money is for to use, but a human in a Friendship is a treasure to take care and to be Proud, many go for money and never meet the value of life.

Jan Jansen

#10. Without water the desert is nothing but a grave ...

Mildred Cable

#11. My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to speak their language. I wonder if my mother and father ever had that, or if my mother was always just trying to decipher him.

Jodi Picoult

#12. For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#13. [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

Mildred Cable

#14. Yenrieth wanted to lick her dry.
Then lick her wet.

Larissa Ione

#15. Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.

Rudolf Hoss

#16. Oh, it's so good

Jo Beverley

#17. History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

Mildred Cable

#18. God provides the men and women needed for each generation.

Mildred Cable