Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
#quotes #trevor-baylis #inspiration #ideas #night

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
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We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend. ~Tony Snow
#quotes #tony-snow #society #nation #trust

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
#quotes #haile-gebrselassie #marathon #running #new-york

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
#quotes #bonnie-wright #popularity

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
#quotes #michel-de-montaigne #human

And old rat is a brave rat. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #time #age

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
#quotes #george-herbert #motivation #confidence #skills

East and West are coming together. Whether in peace or anarchy; they are coming together. There need not be a clash between East and West, between Islam and Europe. ~Orhan Pamuk
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Will is stronger than fact; it can mold and overcome fact. ~H. G. Wells
#quotes #h-g-wells #wish #hardship

Nakata is empty inside. Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That is what scares me the most. ~Haruki Murakami
#quotes #haruki-murakami #emptiness

Write in the sand the flaws of your friend. ~Pythagoras
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I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing; my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes. ~Gary Kemp
#quotes #gary-kemp

I don't debate with liars. ~Evo Morales
#quotes #evo-morales #lying #debating

Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. ~Ronnie Coleman
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Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
#quotes #bernadette-devlin #politics #sacrifice

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#quotes #johann-wolfgang-von-goethe #metaphor

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along? ~Peter Schuyler
#quotes #peter-schuyler #bush

Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. ~Malagasy Proverb
#proverbs #malagasy-proverbs #love

The fraud is not complete unless it be practised upon clever and cunning persons. ~Arabic Proverb
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #experience

Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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The representational-image urge is actually a kind of heightened perception, and I don't stop to think. I don't freeze up, it's actually a kind of letting-go. It's like dancing. At a certain point it's conscious, unconscious, everything is kind of coming together. ~Michael Light
#quotes #michael-light #thinking

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature. ~George Muller
#quotes #george-muller #nature #god