1640s England Quotes & Sayings

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read. — Zuzana Licko

Nevertheless, four years later, at the end of August 2004, a Zogby poll discovered the critical fact that 57 percent of the undecided voters in that year's election would rather have a beer with George Bush than with John Kerry.
The question was odd enough on its face, but a nation to which it would matter is odder still. Be honest. Consider all the people with whom you've tossed back a beer. How many of them would you trust with nuclear launch codes? — Charles P. Pierce

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy. — Wendell Berry

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s. — Noam Chomsky

Incited. That was it, the guidingprinciple of her life in Copenhagen. She was incited to make an impression, a voluptous impression. She was incited to inflame attention and admiration. She was dressed for it, subtly schooled for it. And after a little while she gave herself up wholly to the fascinating business of being seen, gaped at, desired. — Nella Larsen

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career. — Kate Smith

I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew. — George Carlin

You win them to what you win them with. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is conventional to tell that constitutional story - of a republican failure ending in restoration - but to do so is to limit the significance of the 1640s to that single constitutional queston. There is much more to say, and to remember, about England's decade of civil war and revolution. Political and religious questions of fundamental importance were thrashed out before broad political audiences as activists and opportunists sought to mobilize support for their proposals. The resulting mass of contemporary argument is alluring to the historian since it lays bare the presumptions of a society very alient to our own. At the same time, by exposing those presumptions to sustained critical examination, this public discussion changed them. — Michael Braddick

My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera. — Dylan Penn

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart. — Don Bluth

The divine harbinger of summer - warm rain. — Kevin Myers

We need to build a Biblical friendship, a friendship established on the principles of God's Word. — Gary Inrig

You can plant a flower, but you cannot tell it how to grow. — Matshona Dhliwayo