Edmeades 2014 Quotes & Sayings

Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in the imagination: thus wrote General Bonaparte to General Moreau in 1800. His observation helps to explain why the world, only a few years after sighing with relief at its delivery from the ogre, began to worship him as the greatest man of modern times. Napoleon had barely left the scene when the fifteen years that he had carved out of world history to create his glory seemed scarcely believable. Only the scars of the war veterans and the empty places in the widows' beds seemed to attest to the reality of those years, and time soon eliminated even these silent witnesses. What remained, in retrospect and in the imagination, was legend and symbol. — J. Christopher Herold

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us. — Quentin Reynolds

When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar. — Amanda Seyfried

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized. — Donald Rumsfeld

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that. — Charlie Flynn

They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple. — Matthew McConaughey

Although there is nothing inherently wrong with directing media attention to official sources, media coverage goes far beyond simply allowing officials to be heard. Rather, officials are successful in dominating the news to the point where they create reality. Government officials do not merely retain a preferred or privileged position in news reporting, they actively manufacture stories, effectively blocking out opposing views due to their tremendous power to mold stories. — Anthony DiMaggio

thrilled by the dark look of desire. She thrived on men's desire for her. It made the sexual high that much greater — Jasmine Haynes

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. — Alexander Pope

Women don't want to win, they want a winner. — Patrice O'Neal

What makes a great golf course is continuity and variety: right-to-left holes, left-to-right holes. — Amy Alcott

In a letter, once, he drew me a picture, or allegorical diagram, imitated from the well-known frontispiece of Hobbes's Leviathan, which showed a Leviathan of human values. In the head there stood a figure labeled SAINT. In the heart, a figure labeled HERO. Twittering round the huge figure there was an insect-like object dressed as a man of fashion of the seventeenth century and labeled GENTLEMAN; from its mouth there issued a balloon in which was written in tiny letters: 'and where do I come in?'. Mirabel, he went on to say, was no part of the Everlasting Gospel, a phrase of Blake's that he had his own meaning for. Perhaps the hunger for magnitude that made him admire Gilgamesh and the Edda, and made Spenser and Milton his favourites, disabled him from an appreciation, which I could not deny, for a world of elegant cuckoldry and cynic wit, so seemingly heartless, a trifler's scum of humanity that sought to be taken for its cream. — Jocelyn Gibb