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We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and invest them in U.S....

Quote by John Perkins about home, house

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Quote by Martin Lewis Perl about teaching, students, work

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Quote by Charles de Gaulle about god

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

Quote by Bill Crosby about people, earth, home, children, human imperfections

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

Quote by Lewis Carroll about people

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about music, garden, memory, things, night, old, olderness

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about woman, clothes, face

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace, what you need is someone to take hold of you gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about grace, contentment, need, love, life, people

Absolutely, I you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no there was no going back, he was just a great guy.

Quote by Priscilla Presley about opinion, contentment, life

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Quote by William Faulkner about film, man

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

Quote by William Falconer about opinion, danger, nothing

Everyone knows how much Australia means to me. I try to get back here as much as I can, but normally it's for work, so I'm in and out and jetlagged and stressed.

Quote by Kylie Minogue about country, work

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about world, man, face

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Quote by Mary Kay Ash about woman, word, love

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Quote by Edna Ferber about past, affair, people, contentment

Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we reenact.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about time, mind

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity

Quote by Simon Wiesenthal about history, people

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Quote by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse about success, rules, writers

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Quote by Arthur Miller about children, trap, spirit, contentment, love

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Quote by Virginia Woolf about literature, mind