Quotes About Resourcefulness

Best way to survive in the wilderness is stay warm and dry and fed and don't get lost, but you make those arrangements before you go there.

A joke I used to know said that if you were planning a trip into the deepest wilderness you should pack a bottle of gin and a bottle of vermouth, and never open them unless and until you became hopelessly lost. Then, wherever you were, when you took your two bottles out of your kit bag, someone would come over the horizon and tell you how to make a better martini.

As far as I'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out through the stratosphere and put them in orbit around Mars. Except, of course, the taxis that have to be at my disposal when I need them.

Cilv?kiem, kuriem ir iekš?jie resursi, pareizie notikumi iest?jas. Tie izskat?s p?c nejauš?b?m. Bet tie rodas aiz nepieciešam?bas.

She must have been freezing, and it filled Pete with gratitude for the no-bullshit people of the earth, the people who knew what had to be done and would find their own damn coat later.

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Then Samson said: “With the jawbone of a donkey I have piled them into heaps. With the jawbone of a donkey I have slain a thousand men.”

Then the manís wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.

“Now, however,” He told them, “the one with a purse should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one.