Strangling Fig Quotes

#1. She got in, as she had persuaded Jerott Blyth to bring her half across France, by force of logic, a kind of flat-chested innocence and the doggedness of a flower-pecker attacking a strangling fig.

Dorothy Dunnett

#2. You were stalwart.

Jeff Hirsch

#3. I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

A.R. Rahman

#4. Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

Sara Paretsky

#5. To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.

Prince Hassan Bin Talal

#6. Ares sighed "What are the three words said most often in our house?"
"Not tonight, Ares?" Than offered.
"Funny," Ares growled. "Cara never says that.

Larissa Ione

#7. Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.

Greg Mortenson

#8. Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

Joanne Kraft

#9. me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake

Mark Twain

#10. Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I minimize the confusion if that situation actually develops. In my view, losses are a very important part of trading. When a loss happens, I believe in embracing it.

Gil Blake

#11. The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

Randy Pausch

#12. When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

Kris Carr

#13. Don't give me the peace that passeth understanding, give me understanding.

Helen Keller

#14. If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

John Tillotson

#15. You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

Steve Prefontaine