Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

David Suzuki

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.

Catherine Bell

I love cold, rainy weather.

Carole Lombard

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a sense of the fitness of things. Something that’s out of proportion, like an inflated ego, should strike you funny, particularly if it’s your own inflated ego. Otherwise you are pathetic and quite hopeless.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the medias all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

Charles Spurgeon

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Chris Cleave

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

Kurt Vonnegut

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

Eckhart Tolle

See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Lawrence M. Krauss

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

Evan Harris

I am very dubious about whether NHS money that could be spend on things that have been shown to work should be spent on things, however popular they are.

Peter Jackson

To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

Don Peterson

I was a little dubious about introducing this to the lake country. On the Iron Range, it's in their blood.

Rob Schroeder

It's a dubious honor because we shouldn't have been in that position.

Julian Barnes

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

Natalie Goldberg

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

John Major

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Dmitry Medvedev

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Bruce Schneier

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

Brian Tracy

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

Carl Jung

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.