Atlantika Full Quotes & Sayings

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. — Charles Lamb

Oh! how heavily the weight of slavery pressed upon me then. I must toil day after day, endure abuse and taunts and scoffs, sleep on the hard ground, live on the coarsest fare, and not only this, but live the slave of a blood-seeking wretch, of whom I must stand henceforth in continued fear and dread. — Solomon Northup

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality. — Antonio Gramsci

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics. — Sergei Lavrov

Drink thy blood, Beaumanoir, and thy thirst will pass! — Barbara W. Tuchman

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression. — James Surowiecki

It is curious how the passing of lifetimes will change a man. — Daniel O'Malley

Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising. — Billy Crystal

My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing. — Natalie Maines