Baronial Ivory Quotes & Sayings

There is no escaping the fact, however, that social science research on the distribution of wealth was for a long time based on a relatively limited set of firmly established facts together with a wide variety of purely theoretical speculations. — Thomas Piketty

But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence. 1 Peter 3:15 — Anonymous

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food. — Ralph Nader

Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved. — Michael Jackson

Surrender ... sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed — Rick Warren

Iconography, good iconography, strives to convey invisible reality in a visible form. — Peter Pearson

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong . — E. M. Forster

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain. — James Wolcott

Time after time he[Count Olaf] had come very close to succeeding, and time after time the Baudelaire orphans had revealed his plan, and time after time he had escaped-and all Mr. Poe had ever done was cough. — Lemony Snicket

And the strange thing was that it felt absolutely familiar, the curve of her arm under my hand and the weight of her head against my shoulder: not discovered but remembered. She felt the way I had always known she would feel. Even the tang of her fear was familiar. — Robert Charles Wilson