1123 Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln, in order to maintain the unity of the United Statesresorted to the use of force.so, I think Abraham Lincoln, president, is a model, is an example. — Zhu Rongji

If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave. — John Dryden

Better by a long road. — Patrick Rothfuss

Blast your soul, you hussy!" he exclaimed in exasperation. — Robert E. Howard

Know yourself as a snowdrift on the sand Heaped for two days, or three, then thawed and gone. (c.1050-c.1123) — Omar Khayyam

Each small accommodation of my physical environment is an admission that things are not improving, that this is not some fleeting horror, that perhaps...But that is the unthinkable thought. — Anna Lyndsey

There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor. — Lynn Cullen

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence. — Stefan Zweig

While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the youth, the secret associations, the schools in the name of principles, and the middle class in the name of interests, were moving in to dash against each other, to grapple and overthrow each other, while each was hurrying and calling the final and decisive hour of the crisis, far off and outside that fatal sector, in the deepest of the unfathomable caverns of that miserable old Paris, the gloomy voice of the people was heard deeply growling.
A fearful, sacred voice, composed of the roaring brute and the speech of God, which terrifies the feeble and warns the wise, which comes at the same time from below like the voice of a lion and from above like the voice of thunder. Page 1123 Saint-Denis Chapter 13 part II — Victor Hugo

Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread. — Seth Godin

When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is. — Cilla Black

To me, 'Scream' is a masterpiece on every level - the performances, the humor, the tone - it's just flawless. — Marley Shelton

I had gone to Europe ... to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American. — Marian Anderson

It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity. — Lewis Black

Them. She's much too nice about it, but that's the way she is. Leslie almost said that that was why he loved her, but caught — Danielle Steel

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten. — Jason S. Hornsby

My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth ... — Nikola Tesla