7330 Quotes & Sayings

Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons - — Dan Simmons

The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part. — Theodor Mommsen

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don't want to thrive on people's opinions of me. — Lupita Nyong'o

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient adjectival form. A citizen would have to be either a United Statesian or some other such clumsy locution, or an American, thereby arrogating to ourselves a title that belonged equally to the inhabitants of some three dozen other nations on two continents. Several alternatives to America were actively considered -Columbia, Appalachia, Alleghania, Freedonia or Fredonia (whose denizens would be called Freeds or Fredes)- but none mustered sufficient support to displace the existing name. — Bill Bryson

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. — Francis Bacon