John Wesley Powell Quotes
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.John Wesley Powell
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
Hans Blix -
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
Abby Wambach -
A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
Vanessa Hudgens -
There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess -
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
Canelo Alvarez
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
Carlene Carter -
Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.
Wang Jianlin -
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
Nadia Comaneci -
I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
Edie Campbell -
After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
Gabriel Medina -
I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
Questlove
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
Yair Lapid -
Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.
Harri Holkeri -
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara Tuchman
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During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,...
Preston Manning -
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
Jacques Ellul -
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden -
You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.
Mother Teresa -
I bought a restaurant - that was pretty expensive.
Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham -
Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
John Wesley Powell