Birkenhead House Quotes & Sayings

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form. — Bret Bielema

I had the chance to witness the evolution of the Nuclear Deal into Dr. Singh's legacy as he assiduously, piece by piece, crafted the Indo-US nuclear deal against all odds, including risking his government. — Sunil Mittal

Consequently, in the United States the law favors those classes which are most interested in evading it elsewhere. — Alexis De Tocqueville

One man may not kill. If he kills a fellow-creature, he is a murderer. If two, ten, a hundred men do so, they, too, are murderers. But a government or a nation may kill as many men as it chooses, and that will not be murder, but a great and noble action. Only gather the people together on a large scale, and a battle of ten thousand men becomes an innocent action. But precisely how many people must there be to make it so? - that is the question. One man cannot plunder and pillage, but a whole nation can. But precisely how many are needed to make it permissible? — Leo Tolstoy

When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color.But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection. — Donna Karan

Don't call me that," I muttered, banging my forehead into my locker. "And the tutoring went fabulous. Please kill me now." -Meghan Chase — Julie Kagawa

Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow. — Adrian McKinty

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous. — Slash

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal. — Joseph Goebbels

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House. — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel. — Walter M. Fitch

You can't stay in the desert, you go nuts after 24 hours. — Lykke Li