"If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up."

-- Peter David

#Cute Funny Quotes #Tides Quotes #Events Quotes

“Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right in there in the midst of it, right up to my nose - totally involved in the community, in the world, in the stream of history, in the human image.”
“Collective will supplants individual whim”
“Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.”
“Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.”
“India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.”
“A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.”

Source : "Catalonia warns EU that million-strong march cannot be ignored" by Giles Tremlett, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.
“My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and ... many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt.) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today ...”
“Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”

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