Quotes of: Frederick Keyword

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Dorothy Dix

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

James Buchan

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

James Wolcott

As the BBC approaches the final phase of decisions about its future, it will be important for those involved to be established in post and ready to take responsibility for implementation of the outcome.

Pauline Neville-Jones

Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.

Timothy Noah

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

Cofer Black

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Walter Annenberg

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

Tarja Halonen

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Edward Lawrie Tatum

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Cyril Tourneur

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James Bryant Conant

Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.

Ertharin Cousin

I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.

Edmond H. Fischer

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

Gustav Krupp

Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.

George P. Shultz

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

Harry Johnston

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Josephus Daniels

The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

John Eisenhower

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

James Longstreet

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men.

John Amery

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

Karen Abbott