“ This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Television is now so desparately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Wealth in activity — capital with all its friction — is far safer than invested wealth lying dead. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 431
“ I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
- 2.4K
“ One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day. ”
- Peter Brodie- Copy
- 775
“ Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 1K
“ I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it. ”
- Kristin Scott Thomas- Copy
- 1K
“ We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. ”
- William Westmoreland- Copy
- 193
“ Coalition forces have caused such attrition to the Republican Guard units ringing the capital. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
- 251
“ The diamond cannot be polished without friction, not man perfected without trials. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ”
- Diogenes the Cynic- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ”
- Hank Aaron- Copy
- 798
“ Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 738
“ Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor. ”
- Edward Hoagland- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I think there will be broad participation in the national assembly,... Minorities will be represented. There's been reaching out to Kurds and the Sunnis in construction of the constitution that will continue. ”
- Bill Frist- Copy
- 30
“ Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. ”
- William Bennett- Copy
- 4K
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