Eric Weiner Quotes
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
Eric Weiner
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Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
Anu Garg
Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
Dar Williams
To have strongly integrated managers who have a deep understanding of technology is a rare and difficult combination to build. You have to invest a lot in selecting and training these people.
Azim Premji
You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
Jason Statham
Until the 1990s, there were few reliable observations about movement at the scale of the entire universe, which is the only scale dark energy effects. So dark energy could not be seen until we could measure things very, very far away.
Adam Riess
I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.
Rachel Caine
I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.
Nadya Suleman
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
J. G. Holland
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.
C. S. Lewis
For too long, Missouri has been run by career politicians, owned by corrupt consultants, high-paid lobbyists and special interests.
Eric Greitens
It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
From a young age, I was a pretty good listener, a strong lady. Maybe it helped me that I never felt intimidated by anybody. Even at school, I was always strong. I believed in myself, in what I do.
Caster Semenya
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Samuel Johnson
You work really hard to make it, and maybe you get some acclaim, but then you realize there are certain limitations as an actor.
James Franco
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
Eric Weiner
