Corbetts Auction House Quotes & Sayings

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again. — Eduardo Galeano

Recent events have shown us that we are a single, interdependent world. But the burden of any world crisis falls most heavily on the developing countries and on their peoples. And everything that we have learnt tells us that it is the children who will be feeling the harshest and the most permanent effects. Can we therefore claim in all earnestness to love our children--the children of the North and the South--if we do not give the most serious attention to preventing a world that has more than enough resources from dividing ever more deeply between rich and poor? — Graca Machel

If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake. — Dave Barry

not of this world, — Tracy Chevalier

I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Roy Jones still number one and it's gon' be that way baby! For all these doubters, him [points to Larry Merchant] and the rest of them that said Roy Jones is a fluke, now they know. — Roy Jones Jr.

This place where half of us will typically spend a year or more of our lives was never truly made for us. — Atul Gawande

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. — Padma Lakshmi

Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip. — Samuel R. Delany