Greying_Geezer's Quotes

Here's the list of quotes submitted by Greying_Geezer — There are currently 63 quotes total — keep up the great work!

I am not denying saying anything I did not say. – Brian Mulroney Famous Quote	added 1 month ago
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. – Addison Walker Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around. – Catherine Deneuve Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
There was an academic survey about a decade ago that found viewers who watch no news were better informed than those who watched Fox News. This might be hilarious if Fox News wasn't also the most watched cable network in America. Then it's terrifying. – Vinay Menon Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say. (addressing fellow candidate Vivek Ramaswamy in a the 2nd GOP primary debate) – Nikki Haley Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
In the field of civil engineering, if we don’t make an impact on the world, there won’t be a world to worry about. – Luna Lu Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
It doesn't matter whether you win or lose...until you lose. – John McEnroe Famous Quote	added 10 months ago
Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. – Tommy Douglas Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Let’s not forget that the ultimate goal of Medicare must be to keep people well rather than just patching them up when they get sick. – Tommy Douglas Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. – Tommy Douglas Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved. – Saint Augustine Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
My history doesn’t have to be my destiny. – Jully Black Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. – Benjamin Franklin Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water. – Ben Franklin Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Too many engineers are wrapped up in what they call technology and the gadgets, the hardware, and they forget that the whole purpose of technology is to make peoples' lives better. People forget that, and I have to keep reminding them. We are trying to improve the human experience. That's what technology is all about. – Martin Cooper Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. – William Stanley Merwin Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. – Tommy Douglas Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. – Tommy Douglas Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Ukrainian women did not wait for doors to be open for them to serve in all capacities. They broke the doors down and have proven themselves as combat capable force multipliers. (re: response of Ukrainian women to the 2022 invasion of their country by the Russian Federation) – Lt. Col. Melanie Lake Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The order of Fungi is still Chaos, a scandal of art, no botanist knowing what is a Species and what is a Variety. – Linnaeus Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it. – Ursula Le Guin Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. – William James Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species becomes at doing the things they need to survive. – Charles Darwin Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing. – William Bateson Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested. – Merlin Sheldrake Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
What’s astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look. – Merlin Sheldrake Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The country [Canada] is not entitled to nine [Supreme Court] judges giving their own views; the country is entitled to nine judges giving their views after listening to the views of their eight other colleagues. – Bertha Wilson Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Women in Canada are not walking around this country in a state of constant consent to sexual activity unless and until they say No or offer resistance to anyone who targets them for sexual activity. – Catherine Anne Fraser Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
You have every right to be an idiot. What you don't have the right to do is you don't have the right to harass shopkeepers, you don't have the right to scare people away from downtown and from those stores at their busiest time of year, and you don't have the right to expose your children to this. This is flagrant behaviour that puts other people at risk … we [city Council] have far better things we should be doing with our time than dealing with these people [CoVID-19 anti-mask protestors]. – Naheed Nenshi Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
There is a clear message that is coming through. This [CoVID-19] is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated. – Rochelle Walensky Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
– Reverend Michael Coren Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
The socon [social conservative] Bible seems to have had the references to forgiveness and gentleness expunged somewhere along the line, and Jesus has become the Lord of Nastiness rather than the Prince of Peace.” – Reverend Michael Coren Famous Quote	added 2 years ago
I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass. [Referring to a top casino executive and his wife who flew from Vancouver by commercial flight and chartered aircraft 2200 km to Beaver Creek, ignoring mandatory quarantine requirements, to jump the queue for COVID-19 vaccinations. Beaver Creek is a First Nations community of 80, given vaccine priority because of its remoteness near the Alaska border.] – Mike Farnworth Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. – Aeschylus Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Poetry is a weapon. It is an instrument of social change...and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with. Inherently, you are pushing against the status quo. And so for me, it's always existed in that tradition of truth-telling. – Amanda Gorman Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Good books are the warehouses of ideals. – H.G. Wells Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
I’m not telling anyone else what to do, but there is a risk when you are vocal about these things and don’t practise as you preach, then you will become criticised for that and what you are saying won’t be taken seriously. [Asked about celebrities who talk about the climate emergency while flying around the world.] – Greta Thunberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
I don’t think it’s selfish to have children: it is not the people who are the problem, it is our behaviour. – Greta Thunberg Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!) – Samuel Beckett Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
People really wanted to hear me say that what they were considering [with regard to activities during the COVID-19 pandemic] was okay, no matter what that was. It just doesn’t work that way. The most important message was limit your contact to just a very few people. – Bonnie Henry Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. – C.S. Lewis Famous Quote	added 3 years ago
For a lot of people a car means freedom and social status, but if a city provides you no choice but to drive, a car isn't freedom, it's dependence. If you have no choice but to drive for every trip, it's not your fault. Your city has failed. – Janette Sadik-Khan Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Trump does not picture his role as being a leader; he sees his role as going on national television and criticizing the leadership of others. – David Frum Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted … you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. – Alanis Obomsawin Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
We used to go to the sea to discover the world: now we go to the sea to discover ourselves. – Michel Duplain Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens. – Oliver Sacks Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
Of course, the most rewarding part is the ‘Aha’ moment, the excitement of discovery and enjoyment of understanding something new – the feeling of being on top of a hill and having a clear view. But most of the time, doing mathematics for me is like being on a long hike with no trail and no end in sight. – Maryam Mirzakhani Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character. – Albert Einstein Famous Quote	added 4 years ago
The means we use to achieve our objectives in this world define the type of world we are going to live in. (speaking in deliberations prior to the passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) – Senator Charles H. Percy Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
I am convinced that creative minds in the name of greed can concoct schemes faster than we can get legislation against them. – Senator Charles H. Percy Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
Adventure and excitement are the two things missing from civilization. Danger keeps you on your toes. You'll never feel as alive as when death is over your shoulder. – James Bridwell Famous Quote	added 5 years ago
The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star) – Maryam Mirzakhani Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star) – Ahmed Kathrada Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star) – Mildred Dresselhaus Famous Quote	added 6 years ago
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary,.... – John Stuart Mill Famous Quote	added 7 years ago
It's 2015. [In response to being questioned on why he implemented gender equality in his cabinet.] – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
I know I will make mistakes, but I hope it will be said of me when I give up the highest honour that you can confer on any man—He wasn't always right; sometimes he was on the wrong side, but never on the side of wrong. – John George Diefenbaker Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
Commenting to reporters regarding polls—I’ve always been fond of dogs, and they are the one animal that knows the proper treatment to give to poles. – John George Diefenbaker Famous Quote	added 8 years ago
When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever. – Augusta Stowe-Gullen Famous Quote	added 9 years ago
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. – Anthony Neil Wedgewood "Tony" Benn Famous Quote	added 10 years ago
The surest way to keep a people down is to educate the men and neglect the women. If you educate a man you simply educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. – Dr. James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey Famous Quote	added 10 years ago
A Bible falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't. – Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon Famous Quote	added 10 years ago
The function of a financial system is to channel money from people who have it but want to save it to people who don't have it but want to spend it. ... In Ireland, as in most European countries, the banking system is the most important conduit for channelling money from savers to investors. – Dan O'Brien Famous Quote	added 10 years ago

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