Quotes About 172

#1. A story went around that someone had asked Mozart how he intended to refute his detractors.
"I will refute them with new works," he said.
It was a confident, valiant thing for him to say, everyone thought. I thought so too, when I invented the story; and I still believe it today. (172)

Joan Wickersham

#2. Try not to seek after the true
Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)

Edward Conze

#3. Neither man spoke of the past. Darcy could not rid himself of its power but Wickham lived for the moment, was sanguine about the future and reinvented the past to suit his audience, and Darcy could almost believe that, for the present, he had put the worst of it completely out of his mind. p.172

P.D. James

#4. EVERY PILOT REMEMBERS his first flight. For me, it was in a Cessna 172 at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, in 1968.

George W. Bush

#5. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Dave Barry

#6. Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble. (172)

Sherman Alexie

#7. EITHER you have work or you have not. When you have to say, "Let us do something," then begins mischief. 172

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

Rosa DeLauro

#9. Who's going to help me and Bec kick some Shadow ass? -Page 172

Darren Shan

#10. The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.

Akio Toyoda

#11. There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#12. The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172).

Alejo Carpentier

#13. Abide not with dualism,
Carefully avoid pursuing it;
As soon as you have right and wrong,
Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

Edward Conze

#14. We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Robert Casey

#15. Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

George Monbiot

#16. I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

Jena Morrow

#17. If you could understand by yourself why a thing was true, you would believe it more than just having it told to you by a teacher.

Kate Griffin

#18. Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

George Galloway

#19. The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.

Huston Smith

#20. There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#21. The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

Paul Robeson

#22. School should be about improving a kid's life, about encouraging him to think new thoughts, about giving him new abilities, or about coming up with new ambitions." - Roger Schank.

Peter Rogers

#23. See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. And some by hours; Some measure days by dreams And some by flowers; My heart alone records My days and hours.

Madison Cawein

#25. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

Clarice Lispector

#26. Incapacity for true dialogue implies an incapacity for tolerance, self-reflection and empathy.

Azar Nafisi

#27. My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know what to do during the next time around.

Jessica Sanchez

#28. The freedom from something is not true freedom. The freedom to do anything you want to do is also not the freedom I am talking about. My vision of freedom is to be yourself.

Rajneesh

#29. The living Jesus will give you joy amid tribulation.

Richard Wurmbrand

#30. I used to exist in a simple world of right and wrong, positive and negative. I grew out of an ordered world. Everything had its place, before I came along and belonged nowhere.

Vi Hart