Quotes by People Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions. A. A. Gill facts dull people Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.' A. A. Gill america people thinking Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more. A. A. Milne europe two people There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them. A. A. Milne talking people travel I have a house where I go, A. A. Milne say-anything house people For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds. A. A. Milne fifty dream people If people ask me, I always tell them: "Quite well, thank you, I'm very glad to say." If people ask me, I always answer, "Quite well, thank you, how are you today?" I always answer, I always tell them, If they ask me Politely... BUT SOMETIMES I wish That they wouldn't A. A. Milne answers wish people It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. A. A. Milne running book people No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think. A. A. Milne mistake people thinking What I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time. "Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it. It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering." "Oh!" said Pooh. A. A. Milne long mean people Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united. A. B. Simpson secret people past God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do. A. B. Simpson doe want people Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted. A. B. Simpson should leadership people The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. A. B. Yehoshua identity experts people We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. A. B. Yehoshua identity giving people Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas. A. Bartlett Giamatti coercion people ideas There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. A. Bartlett Giamatti ghouls baseball people My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. A. Bartlett Giamatti goal people thinking Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society. A. Bartlett Giamatti majors sports people People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so. A. Bartlett Giamatti idealist people 1234567891011»