Quotes About Sappers

#1. If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

Orison Swett Marden

#2. The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I can give God the glory, and it can still hurt.

Katherine Wolf

#4. People who say they have no regrets are full of crap. We all have regrets, but denial is also a powerful force.

Dalya Moon

#5. During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals.

Marie Curie

#6. He is certainly not a good citizen who does not wish to promote, by every means in his power, the welfare of the whole society of his fellow citizens." That is Adam Smith talking, the apostle of laissez-faire.

Charles Murray

#7. I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

Johnny Carson

#8. I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

Rudyard Kipling

#9. Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more power to replace it. In financial terms, a dollar must be spent to make a dollar-or two, if things go well.

Tom Wicker

#10. I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.

Henry Kravis

#11. The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

John Vernon

#12. His love came with no strings attached, which I thought was the greatest gift one human being could give to another.

Lisa Kleypas

#13. The ship's knowledge extended to navigation, to the handling of weather and awareness of necessary maintenance.

Robin Hobb