Jeopardised Quotes

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk. ~ Philip Hammond

Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe. ~ Joe Hill

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively. ~ Brian Sutton-Smith

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't. ~ Ted Sarandos

I heartily believe in thinking only of the past as its remembrance gives us pleasure. ~ Susan Adriani

I had a firm policy never to charge up my team on an emotional level. I believe that for every artificial peak you may create there is a valley, and i don't like valleys. Games can be lost in valleys. The ideal is an ever-mounting graph line that peaks with your final performance. There will be difficulty and adversity to overcome, but that is necessary to become stronger. Other coaches believe in charging a team up. I never did and never will. I sought a calm assurances in our dressing room, and a calm assurance warming up on the floor, and ad calm assurance in my final remarks before going out to play. ~ John Wooden

I was able to represent my country and put on the red, white, and blue - how many people in the world get to do that? Standing on the podium with my teammates, and being the first women's gymnastics team to win this gold medal, it was life-changing! ~ Dominique Moceanu

I firmly believe that American society would not endure ten years if subjected to half the trials and tortures we've put Natives through. And yet Native peoples have not been utterly destroyed, not by the world's strongest military. They have not been totally assimilated, not by the world's largest religion. Native religions are indeed concerned with being a good person, respecting one's family, ancestors, community, and the Earth - and when these principles are lived, there is great strength. ~ Israel Morrow

Love is desire for knowledge. ~ Cesare Pavese

The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance. ~ Edward Mills Purcell

For to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond reckoning. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was. ~ Stephen King

Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the other person feels but you're only feeling yourself, maybe you're even worst than me. Or maybe we're all just guessing. ~ Peter Watts

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ~ Walter Pater

Cheap matter offered they to boyish wit, ~ William Wordsworth

He chased after her. Needed to reach her, though he didn't know why. He was just sure in that certain senseless way of dreams. ~ Veronica Rossi