Quotes About The Gregorian Calendar

#1. No day before October 10, 1582, actually occurred on the Gregorian calendar for that was when the calendar was implemented officially.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it. Prevention must be our overriding objective. It can be done. Surrendering to the inevitability of combat only paves the way for its occurring.

Dale E. Turner

#3. Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Robert Collier

#4. When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system.

Lindsey Graham

#5. Ensure that your life stays in flux.

Jenny Holzer

#6. Swimming is my passion and something that I love.

Natalie Du Toit

#7. I love my jackets and good tailoring. I love the designs and the colour.

John Boyega

#8. And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Thomas Keneally

#9. Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision.

Randall Worley

#10. The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. I prefer it when I can intimidate the audience rather than the audience intimidate me. I've been lucky in my career to have both.

Peter Hook

#12. Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

Donnie Yen

#13. The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.

Atul Gawande

#14. Faced with the possibility that evil existed, that pure malevolence had walked into my life and convinced me it was love, faced with the loss of everything I wanted from my life, I fainted. And dreamed dark dreams of blood.

Salman Rushdie

#15. It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

Marat Safin

#16. Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery