Quotes of Pinch - somelinesforyou

“ Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. ”

- Michael Crichton

“ There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. ”

- Robert Reich

“ Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis — once that crisis can be recognized and understood. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Character is not made in a crisis — it is only exhibited. ”

- Robert Freeman

“ Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Written in Chinese, the word crisis, is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represent opportunity. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ President Bush 's next FEMA director must be a qualified emergency response professional with the leadership experience to manage this disaster and future emergencies. ”

- Nancy Pelosi

“ He was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. ”

- William Faulkner

“ They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more. ”

- Bible

“ With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. ”

- Jean Vanier

“ While I agree that all emergency personnel should be highly trained, this is simply beyond the scope of what we can do in rural communities. ”

- Kent Conrad

“ I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place. ”

- Debbie Peterson

“ Day 27 - Bush uses 70,000 gallons of fuel to fly home to deal with the oil crisis. ”

- David Letterman

“ We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ We are in real financial crisis. We hope we can overcome it month by month. ”

- Mahmoud Abbas

“ Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It's great to be able to pinch your side and find there's not too much fat. Can you pinch your soul and find the same? ”

- Christopher Blake

“ Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way… They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down… ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The question is can this crisis also be an opportunity for bringing some Iraqi political leaders to their senses and encouraging cooperation. In a logical world that may be the case, but this is the Middle East. ”

- James Phillips

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ”

- Carl Jung
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