Elizabeth Janeway Quotes

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

Elizabeth Janeway

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• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Important
  • Hope
  • Language

• Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Life
  • Character

• The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Support
  • Government

• Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Men And Women

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Important
  • Question
  • Study

• Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Great
  • Player
  • Speak

• I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • You
  • Like
  • Move

• When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

  

  Idries Shah
  • Why
  • Door
  • Fortune

• We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reach
  • Higher
  • Constantly

• I am the odd man out in the family.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Men
  • Family
  • Odd

• God made the integers, man made the rest.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • God
  • Rest
  • Made

• Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Up
  • Food
  • Theorist

• I'm not a disciplinarian. I simply enforce other people's decisions.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Decision
  • Motivational

• If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Ifs
  • Dinner
  • Please

• We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heaven
  • Creatures
  • Hates

• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Never
  • Four

• Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Crisis