1841 England Quotes & Sayings

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time. — Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. — Isaac Asimov

Some people see things others cannot, and they are right, and we call them creative geniuses. Some people see things others cannot, and they are wrong, and we call them mentally ill. And some people, like John Nash, are both. — Nancy C. Andreasen

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap. — James Altucher

He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him ... he had gone after life again and they had shown him life and made him eat it. — Robert Stone

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature — Mollie Beattie

To live alone one must be either a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Luisa pointed up at the crucifix on the wall and asked, 'Do you believe in all that?' 'I would like to,' he replied, 'but it is too difficult.' She nodded in agreement and said, 'If the person hanging on it were a woman, then I would believe it. — Louis De Bernieres

I always say to women, 'Take advantage of the fact that you're in the minority, don't see it as a disadvantage. You're that much more unique when there's fewer of you.' — Carol Leifer

'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence. — Joanna Scott

to the right collapsed, further burying the former — James Rollins