"I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans."

-- Herman Wouk

#Men Quotes #Pressure Quotes #Machinery Quotes

“If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.”

Source : "Atheists: Obama Administration Out Of Line To Pray For Rain" by Zeke Miller, www.buzzfeed.com. July 19, 2012.
“I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.”
“I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.”
“Brave men die in battle.”
“Listen to advice, but follow your heart.”
“If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.”
“. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.”

Source : Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.106, Penguin
“For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.”

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