There is no use delaying … Stop studying water pitchers and bananas and paint everyday life.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

There are early literary references in the Quran, circa AD 632, to " war-horses … which strike fire, by dashing their hoofs against the stones …" which, if taken literally, is an effect that would have been obtained by shod horses, as barefoot hooves striking stone do not create sparks.

In the bosom of this obscure democracy … the following fine definition of liberty: " There is a twofold liberty, natural … and civil or federal.

" When Tung Kuo Tzu asked Zhuangzi where the Tao was, he replied that it was in the ant, the grass, the clay tile, even in excrement: " There is nowhere where it is not … There is not a single thing without Tao.

There are occasions, in which the hand of the assassin would be very useful … The true answer is this ; that these actions, after all, are not useful, and for that reason, and that alone, are not right.

… There were the part books of the whole of the music in Rosamunde, tied up after the second performance, in December 1823, and probably never disturbed since.

… There are no trees here, but only the vineyards where they produce the Katakekaumene wines which are by no means inferior from any of the wines famous for their quality.

There I learned to appreciate the music of my people … then the blues were born, because from that day on, I started thinking about putting my own experience down in that particular kind of music.

We were among the first members of the colony to arrive at the station of an unfinished railroad … There was a good hotel, well and comfortably furnished, one or two stores neatly furnished and already stocked with goods, several other in process of erection … The streets, scarcely to be defined as such, were full of prairie schooners, containing families waiting until masters could suit themselves with “ claims ,” the women pursuing their housewifely avocations meanwhile – some having cooking stoves in their wagons, others using gypsy fires to do their culinary work ; all seeming happy and hopeful.

There are, according to the Chinese government, “ approximately 200 different kinds of Laogai products that are exported to international markets .” “ A quarter of China ’ s tea is produced in Laogai camps ; 60 percent of China ’ s rubber-vulcanizing chemicals are produced in a single Laogai camp in Shengyang … one of the largest steel-pipe factories in the country is a Laogai camp … ” One Camp alone, Ziangride, harvests more than 22, 000 metric tons of grain every year.

There is no excuse for them not thinking of that except for the unintelligent, in fact, stupid, narrow-minded and selfish leadership which the democracies of the world are cursed with … But when some other system develops stronger leadership, works hard and long, and intelligently and aggressively — which are good traits — and, superimposed upon that, develops the instinct of a racketeer, there is nothing for the democracies to do but fold up.

… There was no place to go ".

In January 2009 the Labour Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, reaffirmed this commitment with regard to the health sector, stating that “ PFIs have always been the NHS ’ s ‘ plan A ’ for building new hospitals … There was never a ‘ plan B ’".

There is no room for prudence in revolutions whose fate and eventual success is always decided by boldness and raw courage … this is why Petőfi condemned his compatriots for the sin of opportunism and hesitation when faced with the great problems of their age … Petőfi's works must be regarded as the law of the Hungarian soul … and of the … love of the country ".

Perle and Frum conclude: “ For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation ’ s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust .” These ideas are foundational elements of neoconservatism.

There she was warmly welcomed by the owner who, to her surprise, was a plump fair-haired young woman wearing a garment that looked like a cross between a peasant ’ s dress and a nun ’ s habit, “ with a long full skirt … and a sort of tight-fitting velvet waistcoat over a white silk blouse.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

Oxford classicist Edward Copleston said that classical education “ communicates to the mind … a high sense of honor, a disdain of death in a good cause, a passionate devotion to the welfare of one ’ s country ”, thus concurring with Cicero that: “ All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature ”.

" Women ’ s testimony is in general light and subject to variation ; this is why it is taken more seriously than that of men " as opposed to men, upon whom " Nature seems to have conferred … the right to govern.

As Francis states, “‘ The Women Men Don ’ t See ’ is an outstanding example … of the subversive use of genre fiction to produce an unconventional discursive position, the feminist subject ” ( 38 ).

The conception that in religious matters anyone, however ignorant, can judge for himself, is the direct denial of the old Jewish maxim, ‘ The ignorant cannot be pious ’ ( Avot 2: 5 )… The majority vote of a Board of Directors of a synagogue is, after all, a negligible quantity when it is in opposition to the vote of historical Judaism with its myriad of Saints and thousands of Sages … The sorting, distributing, selecting, harmonizing and completing can only be done by experienced hands.

It must be presented by means of non-traditional characteristics, you see … one might say that the origin of this music is also found in the interest in ‘ plastifying ’ music, of rendering it plastic like sculpture … musique concrète, in my opinion … led to a manner of composing, indeed, a new mental framework of composing " ( James 1981, 79 ).

In this approximately 800-word document about methods of franking letters he states, " Therefore, of Mr Hill ’ s plan of a uniform rate of postage … I conceive that the most simple and economical mode … would be by Slips … in the hope that Mr Hill ’ s plan may soon be carried into operation I would suggest that sheets of Stamped Slips should be prepared … then be rubbed over on the back with a strong solution of gum …".

In another essay in the book, titled " The Generic City ", Koolhaas declares that progress, identity, architecture, the city and the street are things of the past: “ Relief … it ’ s over.

“ The term ‘ anarcho-syndicalist ’ only came into wide use in 1921-1922 when it was applied polemically as a pejorative term by communists to any syndicalists … who opposed increased control of syndicalism by the communist parties .”

In regard to fine-tuning, Kenneth Himma writes: " The mere fact that it is enormously improbable that an event occurred ... by itself, gives us no reason to think that it occurred by design … As intuitively tempting as it may be ...” Himma attributes the “ Argument from Suspicious Improbabilities ”, a formalization of “ the fine-tuning intuition ” to George N. Schlesinger: To understand Schlesinger ’ s argument, consider your reaction to two different events.

… de l ’ arbitraire

: I, in a very modest manner, shall walk about with bowed head ; I ’ ll have rave reviews … I can become immortal …

Tell me softly, just ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ … Is he alive?

Werner Best, Reinhard Heydrich ’ s deputy, stated that the task of the police was " to root out all symptoms of disease and germs of destruction that threatened the political health of the nation … addition to Jews, most the germs were weak, unpopular and marginalized groups, such as gypsies, homosexuals, beggars, ' antisocials ', ' work-shy ', and ' habitual criminals '.

William Westgarth ’ s 1864 book on the colony of Victoria observed ; " the case of the Aborigines of Victoria confirms … it would seem almost an immutable law of nature that such inferior dark races should disappear.

" Queensland ’ s Colonial Secretary A. H. Palmer wrote in 1884 " the nature of the blacks was so treacherous that they were only guided by fear – in fact it was only possible to rule … the Australian Aboriginal … by brute force " The most recent massacre of Aborigines was at Coniston in the Northern Territory in 1928.

Throughout Herbert Putnam ’ s career, he was described by his colleagues as maintaining “ an impenetrable dignity … formal manner, invariable gracious and cordial, covered shyness and a deep reserve.

Gardner confided to Artie Shaw, her second husband, that “ With him it ’ s impossible … it ’ s like being with a woman.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Only a few fingering charts survive, and most of them, such as that in Speer ’ s Grund-richtiger … Unterricht der Musicalischen Kunst ( Ulm, 1687, enlarged 2 / 1697 / R ) are from the last century of the instrument ’ s use.

The kids have been doing it for a while … you can buy tapes of Turkish music from Turkish stores around the city and they ’ ve been experimenting with that music, sampling it, mixing it with other stuff and rapping to it … We ’ re just trying to build on the Turkish rap thing and build an outlet for it … If I ’ m going to tell you why we ’ re doing it, well, it ’ s pride really.

On the announcement of his departure, Andrew Neil, The Spectator CEO, said: " Boris has been a wonderful and magnificent editor of The Spectator and we are sorry to lose him ; in many ways he will be irreplaceable … leaves the magazine in better shape than it has ever been in its long and glorious history, both editorially and financially … The editorial breadth and quality under his editorship has been unrivalled.

Not only was he a wonderful performer that made such a difference … he was a dear friend to every cast member.

So I ’ m fascinated by what happens when you take a person in a very ordinary, textured world and the story that surfaces actually mimics the process of awareness that is right at the heart of that world … so it ’ s this wonderful, crazy mix of subjectivity and things that keeps drawing me to more open, more flexible forms of story.

She credits her decision to become a registered nurse as " one of the most practical, wonderful ones I ever made … because, aside from the science, you learn crisis management, decision making, prioritizing …"

… It was wonderful to find out that our efforts were not in vain.

Author and reviewer Orson Scott Card writes that " the climax is not just an inward epiphany for a character … he world changes in wonderful strange ways, and the audience can read the book passionately, with sweating fingers, eager to see what happens next, yet reluctant to leave the present moment.

Mohan Lal made a telling observation to Burnes about British imperialism: " You all tell yourselves all sorts of fairy stories – you are here to sell us your wonderful British goods, you want to set us free, you want us to grow up, you want to educate us and make us worship three gods instead of forty thousand … but when you are old and tired and sleeping in a thousand years ' time, you will start to realise that you came here and took possession of what was not yours for one reason.

*” You have a wonderful casserole … I mean wife .”

*' A writer of extraordinary perception Sharon Creech has created a novel which generates considerable compassionate empathy for Annie, the central character, who is trying to understand her role in life … wonderful to read in one session ' — Carousel Autumn 2004 issue 28

The New York Times Book Review said of his book: “ A wonderful book … brilliant … a triumph.

Outsiders are divided on what the center means for elephants, calling it, alternately, “ a stark, sterile-looking place, with … little evident enrichment ,” “ wonderful ,” “ the leading elephant-breeder in the Americas ,” and “ elephant puppy mill .”

I thank my friends who stood by me … I'm sure my grandchildren will grow up happy and healthy in the care of their wonderful parents ".