David Edwards quote: "I weigh now 162 pounds, a dramatic drop from the 250-plus pounds I weighed when I laid down on the surgeon's table, ... Since that surgery last year, I've been able not only to lose weight, but to quit taking all but one medication, down from the seven forms of meds I required daily to stay alive."

Powerful state and business elites seek to determine the basic framework of modern social goals: max...
DAVID EDWARDS

The goals of corporate consumerism require that we accept its values, that we fail to seek better al...
DAVID EDWARDS

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
DAVID EDWARDS

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make ...
DAVID EDWARDS

The whisper number had gotten far ahead of the consensus and had increased over the last week or two...
DAVID EDWARDS

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain...
DAVID EDWARDS

I don't care how famous a guitarist is, he ain't learned everything. There's always some...
DAVID EDWARDS

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot...
DAVID EDWARDS

I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a l...
DAVID EDWARDS

I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
DAVID EDWARDS

I'm not a big goal setter.
DAVID EDWARDS

When at my heaviest, I wore 48-inch waist pants. I bought 32-inch slacks I'm planning on wearing thi...
DAVID EDWARDS

The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.
DAVID EDWARDS

You never learn everything on that guitar neck.
DAVID EDWARDS

The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what peo...
DAVID EDWARDS

I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it.
DAVID EDWARDS

I drive every day. I like to gamble.
DAVID EDWARDS

I knew BB King when he first started out.
DAVID EDWARDS

When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.
DAVID EDWARDS

I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
DAVID EDWARDS

I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise ...
DAVID EDWARDS

When I was running 'round in America, about 30 years old, I didn't want no woman. I knowed I...
DAVID EDWARDS

My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put...
DAVID EDWARDS

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams.
DAVID EDWARDS

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.
DAVID EDWARDS

When I was young, I was everywhere.
DAVID EDWARDS

You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too mu...
DAVID EDWARDS

I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat...
DAVID EDWARDS

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a...
DAVID EDWARDS

Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
DAVID EDWARDS

Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Paul Tillich can show us that the unity which we seek as ...
DAVID L. EDWARDS

I'm a puzzle doer.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzea...
EDWIN EDWARDS

I think I watched a movie about it.
AARON EDWARDS

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS

When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a com...
AL EDWARDS

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.
AL EDWARDS

He stepped up in the second half.
AL EDWARDS

It bounced around the rim three times, probably hit every part of the rim and then went in. This tim...
AL EDWARDS

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are ...
BOB EDWARDS

Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm...
DONNA EDWARDS

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You ca...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS

You sacrifice everything to start a new business. To have the thought of that taken away with no or ...
AARON EDWARDS

It concerns me. We can be wiped aside in the interest of a larger developer.
AARON EDWARDS

You have customers, you have traffic in the area, you have familiarity.
AARON EDWARDS

I thought it was really cool because you got to do all these probe things and it was kind of like an...
AARON EDWARDS

Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS

Security remains a paramount concern for the elections. It is very clearly difficult for any governm...
ADRIAN EDWARDS

a healthy and strong media is within reach.
ADRIAN EDWARDS

The messenger needs to be trusted.
ADRIAN EDWARDS

There was a small fire, one local staff member was slightly injured.
ADRIAN EDWARDS

Absolutely, security remains a paramount concern for the UN. Yes, it is a matter of concern,
ADRIAN EDWARDS

We are certainly following it very closely.
ADRIAN EDWARDS

That statement said such abuses are totally unacceptable, that they're an affront to the work of the...
ADRIAN EDWARDS

At the moment there is restricted movement while we assess the situation.
ADRIAN EDWARDS

This is a tragic loss for Afghanistan . Domestic violence is a concern. This case illustrates how ba...
ADRIAN EDWARDS

It is not the U.N.'s wish to have these barricades and things in place, however, as part of security...
ADRIAN EDWARDS

I know I'm not the 'Indie It Girl' and I'll never have a big breakout, big runaway s...
KATHLEEN EDWARDS

Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
TRYON EDWARDS

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
BOB EDWARDS

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromis...
TRYON EDWARDS

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.
TRYON EDWARDS

There will Be a Moment when Your eyes meet, and everything in the world will be simple again.
MICHAEL EDWARDS

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than...
TRYON EDWARDS

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, bu...
TRYON EDWARDS

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.
GRAEME EDWARDS

I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don't know how, cheerfulness was always brea...
OLIVER EDWARDS

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
BOB EDWARDS

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
TRYON EDWARDS

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If...
MARK EDWARDS

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it...
TRYON EDWARDS

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
TRYON EDWARDS

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
TRYON EDWARDS

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
HARRY EDWARDS

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and c...
FLORA EDWARDS

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
TRYON EDWARDS

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young...
TRYON EDWARDS

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some nev...
TRYON EDWARDS

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough ...
TRYON EDWARDS

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superio...
TRYON EDWARDS

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i...
TRYON EDWARDS

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
TRYON EDWARDS

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it ...
TRYON EDWARDS

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
TRYON EDWARDS

Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide charac...
TRYON EDWARDS

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
TRYON EDWARDS

There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Never be so brief as to become obscure.
TRYON EDWARDS

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to...
TRYON EDWARDS

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have mo...
TRYON EDWARDS

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
TRYON EDWARDS

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often e...
TRYON EDWARDS

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more ...
TRYON EDWARDS

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood...
TRYON EDWARDS

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left...
BOB EDWARDS

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence
TRYON EDWARDS

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often end...
TRYON EDWARDS

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness o...
MONICA EDWARDS

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole r...
TRYON EDWARDS

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if ...
TRYON EDWARDS

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some nev...
TRYON EDWARDS

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true ...
EUGENE EDWARDS

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide charact...
TRYON EDWARDS

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science,...
TYRON EDWARDS

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use...
TRYON EDWARDS

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it...
TRYON EDWARDS

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their st...
TRYON EDWARDS

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
BOB EDWARDS

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
TRYON EDWARDS

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
BOB EDWARDS

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
TRYON EDWARDS

It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources.
BEN EDWARDS

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the res...
JOHN EDWARDS

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's gri...
TRYON EDWARDS

There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really...
KATHLEEN EDWARDS

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their...
TRYON EDWARDS

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
TRYON EDWARDS

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use ...
TRYON EDWARDS

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disagg...
KIM EDWARDS

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being,...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalt...
JONATHAN EDWARDS

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It'...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
TRYON EDWARDS

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready ...
TRYON EDWARDS

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
EDWIN EDWARDS

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a posit...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so...
KIM EDWARDS

It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the ex...
KIM EDWARDS

It?s great to play a top team early. The young players gain experience and we see what we have to wo...
BECKY EDWARDS

This is a great rivalry, even though we are not in the same league, ... I know that Owen J. Roberts ...
BECKY EDWARDS

I feel like (Jill and Adrienne) passed on the leadership to us. We have to step up into that role an...
BECKY EDWARDS

I am excited to finally become a part of the Seminole family. I look forward to joining the talented...
BECKY EDWARDS

The most important thing for Downingtown West is team chemistry. (Smith) likes to work us hard and h...
BECKY EDWARDS

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organizat...
BEN EDWARDS

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they wi...
BEN EDWARDS

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situatio...
BEN EDWARDS

It was a nice pitch, right where I like it. We are starting to come together as a team and the chemi...
BEN EDWARDS

I think A1 Grand Prix will attract a new audience to motor racing thanks to nations racing one anoth...
BEN EDWARDS

We didn't have specific goals in terms of number of downloads. Partially because there's nothing to ...
BEN EDWARDS

It's dramatically cheaper. Plus you don't have thousands of people organizing their schedules around...
BEN EDWARDS

People have just gone ahead and experimented,
BEN EDWARDS

Numbers can give you a ... sense of the organization, but they can't give you the whole sense,
BEN EDWARDS

I'm particularly looking forward to team strategies throughout the season; which drivers they choose...
BEN EDWARDS

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is Presid...
JOHN EDWARDS

There's a lot of America that's Christian. I would not describe us, though, on the whole, as...
JOHN EDWARDS

South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of t...
JOHN EDWARDS

We've worked really hard,
ANGELA EDWARDS

During preseason we looked up at the banner in the gym and realized that we needed to start putting ...
ANGELA EDWARDS

We decided to step it up a notch. We're pretty confident, and after we struggled in the first game, ...
ANGELA EDWARDS

[That quest started when they tried to leave New Orleans Sunday afternoon. Hurricane refugee Angela ...
ANGELA EDWARDS

There are just some people who don't believe women can do this until they watch us play a game, ... ...
ANGELA EDWARDS

They used to get their medications. Now they can't.
ANGELA EDWARDS

Nobody's being careful. Everybody is in a hurry, trying to get somewhere.
ANGELA EDWARDS

I like playing defense and I know that I have to, ... If you don't, you put too much pressure on you...
ANGELA EDWARDS

It was tough, ... But I loved volleyball right when I started playing it. I can't give it up.
ANGELA EDWARDS

Those who can afford to pay it out of pocket are paying out of pocket. Those who can't are doing wit...
ANGELA EDWARDS

We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be a...
ANNE EDWARDS

The current Legislature has determined that HB 616 (the new law) provides each community with suffic...
ANNE EDWARDS

The states case went extremely well.
ANNE EDWARDS

Now that this issue is being made public, you are suffering the same pain all over again.
ANNE EDWARDS

I know I speak for the Bishop when I tell you how sorry I am for all the pain you have suffered in y...
ANNE EDWARDS

Mr. Crafts' report was nothing but an accounting exercise. It doesn't show anything about proportion...
ANNE EDWARDS

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
ANNE EDWARDS

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its...
ANNE EDWARDS

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â¨re of Gone With the Wind on home g...
ANNE EDWARDS

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
ANTHONY EDWARDS

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did n...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

I don't necessarily want my children to have [Hollywood] as their routine. There are a lot of things...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

I wasn't used to sitting on the bench. I shouldn't have done it, but I did kind of start to lay back...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

I was not worried at halftime at all. But then we come out and only score two points in the third qu...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had ...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

We came out flat and everything was off, but once we got rolling we had the game in the bag.
ANTHONY EDWARDS

The offensive line was getting a real good push, ... I feel if I can see a little hole, I can get to...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have t...
ANTHONY EDWARDS

She had a knack for getting rebounds. She made it tough for anybody under the boards.
ANTHONY EDWARDS

If all we did was say we'll raise the grading scale that would've been a silly thing to do, but in c...
BILL EDWARDS

It was too small a blip in too vast a volume of water to create a health hazard.
BILL EDWARDS

Anytime you play a team like Stony Brook or Long Island University, it is going to be looked at as a...
BILL EDWARDS

There are simple common denominators in all sports, whether it's hockey or football or softball. An ...
BILL EDWARDS

The whole idea here is to create healthy streams so we'll have a healthy water supply.
BILL EDWARDS

You can walk over here by the River Club any day of the week and see half a dozen blue herons.
BILL EDWARDS

There are sectors of the world awash in money and venture capital, ... But if you are a woman with a...
BILL EDWARDS

It makes you feel good,
BILL EDWARDS

It's all about the kids. Sometimes we get so caught up in our winning and losing and in our universi...
BILL EDWARDS

There's been a lot of changes not only internally but externally. We're here to do good things. We w...
BILL EDWARDS

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kent...
BOB EDWARDS

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, i...
TRYON EDWARDS

I weigh now 162 pounds, a dramatic drop from the 250-plus pounds I weighed when I laid down on the surgeon's table, ... Since that surgery last year, I've been able not only to lose weight, but to quit taking all but one medication, down from the seven forms of meds I required daily to stay alive.

David Edwards

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