Swiss Quotes - Page 2

• I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Village, Knows, Ifs

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• They like to take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in, sing Amazing Grace all the way to the Swiss banks.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Grace, Way

  Song: Foot of Pride

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• Now, for Romney to believe that somebody's grandmother is going to be so cut off she is going to self deport... He certainly shows no concern for the humanity of people who are already here... I think you have to live in worlds of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and automatic $20 million a year income with no work to have some fantasy this far from reality.

  Newt Gingrich

  Believe, Cutting, Grandmother

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• Google is my rapid response research assistant. It's the Swiss Army knife of information retrieval.

  Lloyd Grove

  Army, Knives, Google

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• Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Women, Watches

  Kurt Vonnegut (1971). “Happy Birthday, Wanda June: A Play”, Delta

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• Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.'

  Philip Yancey

  Kids, School, Careers

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.38, Zondervan

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• I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

  Christine Lavin

  Army, Knives, Giving

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• Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

  Claud Cockburn

  Success, Dog, Fall

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques chased them further and further, with the consequence that the fishermen of Biarritz discovered America before Columbus did. This is a matter for local pride but on a larger view it is not quite so stunning, since with the possible exception of the Swiss everybody discovered America before Columbus did.

  Clive James

  Pride, Views, Whales

  Clive James (1985). “Flying Visits”

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• For some reason, there is a purity to the Swiss Alps - a certain energy - that is very reminiscent of my snowboarding experiences in the Himalayas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Snowboarding, Energy

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• [Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social
  Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

  Chuck Robb

  Funny, Lying, School

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• Most Swiss banks do have a whistleblower program, but they use it to punish those who avail themselves of it.

  Herve Falciani

  Use, Whistleblowers, Program

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.

  Jean Ziegler

  Rocks, Self, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Swiss cheese is the only cheese you can draw and people can identify. You can draw American cheese, but someone will think it's cheddar. It's the only cheese you can bite and miss. "Hey Mitch - does that sandwich have cheese on it?" "Every now and then!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Brother, Practice, Punishment

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• I eat Swiss cheese from the inside out.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cheese

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• I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cheese

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• So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Army, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Rome, Evil

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• Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons are no longer subjects of calculation. A nation of men unanimously bent on freedom, or conquest, can easily confound the arithmetic of statists, and achieve extravagant actions, out of all proportion to their means; as, the Greeks, the Saracens, the Swiss, the Americans, and the French have done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• You know there's only two things more beautiful than a good gun--a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

  Borden Chase

  Beautiful, Women, Gun

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• I cannot keep myself away from ice cream. I have two flavors that are my favorite: chocolate chip cookie dough and vanilla swiss almond. I can eat a whole pint of ice cream in one sitting, no problem!

  Brandi Chastain

  Ice, Two, Chocolate

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• As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mother, Baby

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• ... the running shoe ... could be called the Swiss Army knife of footwear ... What appeal is there to a shoe whose only selling point is comfort?

  Mimi Pond

  Running, Army, Knives

  Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group

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• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Travel, Interesting, Bedroom

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