Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
A. A. Milne Quotes, Famous A. A. Milne Quotes, Quotations, Poems
Rivers
know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. A. A. Milne Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
Sing
Ho! For the life of a Bear! A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Some
people care too much, I think it's called love. A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh
Sometimes,
if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to
watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly
know everything there is to be known. A. A. Milne Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
The
more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there. A. A. Milne The House at Pooh Corner
The
more it snows (Tiddely pom),
The more it goes (Tiddely pom),
The more it goes (Tiddely pom),
On snowing. And nobody knows (Tiddely pom),
How cold my toes (Tiddely pom),
How cold my toes (Tiddely pom),
Are growing. A. A. Milne The House at Pooh Corner
The
Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism,
disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. A. A. Milne
They're
funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having
them. A. A. Milne Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne
They're
changing guard at Buckingham Palace -
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
"A soldier's life is terrible hard,"
Says Alice. A. A. Milne Buckingham Palace
Those
who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything. A. A. Milne Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by
A. A. Milne