Eight Quotes - Page 8

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, and the next heavyweight championship of the world!

A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

Well, weight you can always lose, but hair you can't get back.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go. On my next try I climbed with no thought of failure and reached the top. We cannot know what we can do in advance. The only way to find out is to go all-out trying, thinking only of success.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.

Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things.

You don't get big and strong from lifting weights - you get big and strong from recovering from lifting weights

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach