Quotes About Christmas 1993

#1. By the time the clock had moved past midnight on Christmas 1993, they finally clicked the last piece into place: Angola, nestled between Zaire and Namibia and bordering the vast lapping Atlantic. Then, having succeeded in putting the world back together, they went to bed.

Jessie Ann Foley

#2. California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

Bernard DeVoto

#3. It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.

Francois Jacob

#4. Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

Howard Shore

#5. A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

Meles Zenawi

#7. Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

James Cook

#8. I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a ... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.

Beeban Kidron

#9. I've learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to. It's not hard to hurt someone's feelings; all they have to do is believe what the offender is saying to be true. No one knows me like I know me, and therefore, no one can hurt me.

Melanie Iglesias

#10. I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

Etel Adnan