Tendering And Estimating Quotes

#1. Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNabb

#2. It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.

Richard Dawkins

#3. The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Things are different here, sir," said Carrot. "It wasn't until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal here with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.

Heinz Von Foerster

#6. For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

R.C. Sproul

#7. She nodded, looking down at the small wooden bird, a plain thing carved by a great man who'd always taken pleasure in creating things with his own hands. She's telling me, I think, that I should seek to be none other than myself, and so fly always like the bird that I was born to be.

Susanna Kearsley

#8. By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.

William Allingham

#9. A friend is not only someone who you can confide in, it is someone who can mirror the trust you have shown by confiding in you as well.

Ashley Young

#10. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death.

Khaled Hosseini

#11. The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

Bernie Glassman

#12. One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

John W. Gardner