Culper Quotes & Sayings

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys. — Earl Wilson

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.' — Wesley Clark

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third. — Joseph Epstein

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. — Omar Khayyam

A Doll's House is about money, about the way it turns locks. — Elizabeth Hardwick

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking. — Martin Gore

I don't understand, Your Majesty."
"Of course you don't; you academics!" Skarmak snarled. "All you do is sit in your towers, trying to think your way into a reality that exists only in your own minds, and then you judge the world as wrong because it does not conform to your impossible standards. I live in a real world, academic. And it's my real world that keeps pumping blood into your dead, idealistic one. — Tracy Hickman

Are you going to lock your shitbox?"
Adam said, "No point. Hooligans got in anyway."
The hooligan in question smiled thinly. — Maggie Stiefvater

Will you stop calling it 'stalking'? That's such a harsh term. I prefer 'anonymous following. — Tara Sivec

She tasted of ambrosia. Like peaches and blossoms and honey and musk. And just a touch of salt, to make the unbearable sweetness even sweeter still. — Tessa Dare

Do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are] ... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all. — George Washington

I think we need to get the measurements that Congress has mandated from the White House on how we're going to determine progress in Afghanistan. — Jeanne Shaheen

When I set out to research the story of the Culper Spy Ring, I had no idea where it would take me. — Brian Kilmeade

My work is formal, not based on psychology. — Robert Wilson

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. — Eliot Spitzer

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person. — Dominick Dunne