External Quotes

When people tell me to 'get started,' I think they are being incredibly blunt and presumptuous. Not everyone has their planets lined up for marriage and kids by their mid-30s and why should there be a stampede of bad choices because of external social pressures and bald biological fact? - Anna Johnson

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. - Charles Horton Cooley

When Jews talked about external enemies,they talked about them as if they were monsters. - Elaine Pagels

When it comes to responding to external threats to the country ... the government would like to have a single executive who could act nimbly and agilely. - Steven Bradbury

When I first took office there were a lot of problems, both internally and externally. Taxes weren't being put out in time, the computer system was not designed to allow other county offices to communicate with each other or even allow us to do our work on-line, the staff had very little training and proper procedures were not being followed. All that and more has changed. - Larry Householder

When God answered a prayer with no words or no external sign, be still His love is beyond the power of words. - Unknown

What's nice about him is that he has more confidence in swallowing a pebble and letting the ripples play on the surface, than in making a big splash. He's working less externally. His greatest moments are when he's not even aware of what's registering on his face. - Gore Verbinski

What we would look for is a gradual phasing out of the fuel subsidy and a more effective and coordinated policy response from the government and monetary authorities as and when shocks arise. Shocks such as high oil prices, a classic case of external shock, caught the government by surprise. - Agost Benard

What we do is probably on the external edge of how much sharing is involved. We share everything -- the house, the health care, the food and basic household items, like toothpaste and soap. When you live in this community, you get all your basic needs met, in exchange for working for the benefit of the group. - Parke Burgess

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies