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"If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction." »Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time." »J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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"We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane" »Airplane
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"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." »Benjamin Franklin
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"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it." »Samuel Butler
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"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School board" »Mark Twain
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." »Zora Neale Hurston
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"Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst." »Ford Maddox
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"Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds." »Author Unknown
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them." »Franklin P. Adams
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"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." »Thomas Huxley
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"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door." »Marlo Thomas
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"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them." »Helen Rowland
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." »Kahlil Gibran
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"If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after." »Napoleon Hill
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"The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition." »Israel Zangwill
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"The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition." »Israel Zangwill
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." »Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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