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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." »Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Make no mistake about it: operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war." »Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania." »Dorothy Parker
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania." »Dorothy Parker
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"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania." »Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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"Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed." »Ray Simard
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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless." »Rodney Yee
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"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated." »Robert Collier
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"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." »Don Wood
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"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." »Frank Deford
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"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." »Robert X Cringely
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"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." »Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement." »Thomas Wolfe
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"Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
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"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century." »Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
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"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place." »Horace
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"At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them." »Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." »Dag Hammarskjold
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"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." »Robert Frost
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"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel." »George Santayana
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"I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it." »Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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"like the cycle of water and life there is of love first you meet him, have a crush on him, dream that he is so damn perfect, realize he loves someone else, have a broken heart, finally getting over, and damn it! here we go again" »Fer
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"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible." »William James
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