Woolsack Quotes

#1. In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

Prince Philip

#2. Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. I'm constantly amazed that owners and managers of all businesses don't train their people to call the person who pays by credit card by name. It definitely makes the customer feel good and will be a factor in bringing them back to your place of business.

Zig Ziglar

#4. Because the math is, if you - 5 percent of a million is a lot more than 5 percent of a thousand. So yeah, someone who makes more money, numerically, it's gonna be higher. But the greatest gains, percentage-wise, for people, are gonna be at the lower end of our plan.

Ted Cruz

#5. Millie, I was given one good thing in my life, the family I was born into. I found one good thing, my Club ... But in all my life, I only earned one good thing. That's you.

Kristen Ashley

#6. He stretches forth in our soul,
Teaches our arms how to reach.
Our feet He has shod,
With His gospel of peace.

Kari L. Greenaway

#7. An international presence in Serbia's Kosovo province is not a problem. But only a civilian and unarmed mission under U.N. auspices, with Russia's participation, would be acceptable.

Ivica Dacic

#8. Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.

Jane Kenyon

#9. Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

Gary Wolf

#10. In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

Jerry Pournelle

#11. You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#12. However, just because something isn't surprising doesn't mean it's easy to deal with.

Nnedi Okorafor

#13. Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Armie Hammer

#14. I parked in front of the Field Museum under a NO PARKING sign. There were a couple of actual spots I could have used, but the drive was even closer. Besides, I found it aesthetically satisfying to defy municipal code.

Jim Butcher

#15. I'd share a pic if the digital camera battery wasn't as flat as 17th century Earth.

Simon Haynes

#16. Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don't attempt to justify myself. It's not my husband but myself I have deceived. And not only just now; I have been deceiving myself for a long time.

Anton Chekhov