1617 Project Quotes & Sayings

The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us. — Owen Feltham

The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter. — George F. Will

We all have to show up and do our job regardless of our life circumstances or situations. We don't have to do it with an attitude or whatever but maybe we do that day. Everyone understands that life happens and we have to create a whole other life where our life doesn't even exist. You know, our real life doesn't exist, these characters exist. And that is our life. And that's who we are. — Queen Latifah

Be nice to me or you won't get a future XFL franchise. — Vince McMahon

Underlings should always be uncomfortable in the presence of their superiors," said the Emperor. "Don't you agree? — Paul S. Kemp

We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves. — Andrea Barrett

We need to bear in mind that our opinion of other people, our ties with friends or family, have only the semblance of fixity and are, in fact, as eternally fluid as the sea. — Marcel Proust

There is a skeleton in every house. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants. - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1897 — Michelle Moran

Despite its fascist government Greece entered the Second World War on the Allied side because Italy invaded what it thought was a target for easy conquest. Here was further evidence that, despite the rhetoric, rulers did not consider the Second World War to be a war between fascists and anti-fascists. — Donny Gluckstein

We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet - and this is the key point - Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing's case, the risks do not always come without pain. — James C. Collins