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"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow that did it, but all that had gone before." »Jacob August Riis
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"ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow, ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, as man's ingratitude." »William Shakespeare
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"The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination." »William Shakespeare
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"The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse." »Ed Koch
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"You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." »Ellen Metcalf
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"american life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism." »James Harvey Robinson
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"I will have nought to do with a man who can ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow hot and cold with the same breath." »Aesop
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"ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow ye winds, like the trumpet ackground-color:#e6eff8">blows but without that noise." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If the world should ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done." »Peter Ustinov
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"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow an uncertain trumpet." »Theodore Hesburgh
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"To find yourself jilted is a ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to." »Moliere
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"absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind ackground-color:#e6eff8">blows out the candle and ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow up the bonfire." »La Rochefoucauld
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"If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance." »William S. Gilbert
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"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance." »W. S. Gilbert
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"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart americans who ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow horns to break up traffic jams." »Mary Ellen Kelly
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"Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance." »Dax Ward
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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of autumn." »John Muir
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"a friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow the rest away." »Arab Proverb
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"ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow O wind to where my loved one is. Touch him and come touch me soon. I'll feel his gentle touch through you and meet his beauty in the moon. These things are much for the one who loves. One can live by them alone that he and I breathe the same air and that the Earth we tread is one." »Ramayana
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"Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied." »Edmund S. Morgan
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"Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit." »Godfather, The
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"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to ackground-color:#e6eff8">blow up in our faces." »Carl Sagan
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