Peter Egan Quotes

#1. Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Bob Beamon

#2. Don't look for wealth and beauty as these will last only a short time , and then you'll be left with nothing. Look for piety and faith and you'll get everything including wealth and beauty with it

Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

#3. Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

William Shakespeare

#4. I was not a trained actor.

Frankie Avalon

#5. He receives comfort like cold porridge.

William Shakespeare

#6. Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.

Werner Heisenberg

#7. Jeremy Bentham opened his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation with the famous sentence Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#9. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

#10. Father, I know you're going to do some incredible things in your world today. Please give me the privilege of getting in on some of what you're doing." In other words, church leaders should stop praying, "Lord, bless what I'm doing" and start praying, "Lord, help me to do what you are blessing.

Rick Warren

#11. Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.
It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

Allan Wolf

#12. I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

Edward Appleton

#13. I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

Alexa Von Tobel