Emeutes Quotes & Sayings

What are the convulsions of a city compared to the emeutes of the soul? Man is a depth still more profound than the people. — Victor Hugo

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit. A bank that issues paper at interest is a pickpocket or a robber. But the delusion will have its course ... An aristocracy is growing out of them that will be as fatal as the feudal barons if unchecked in time. — John Adams

Do you remember Vlek, who was such a good sheepdog that she and Jakob alone could drive a whole flock past you at the counting-post? Do you remember how Vlek grew old and sickly and could not hold down her food, and how there was no one to shoot her but you, and how you went for a walk afterwards because you did not want anyone to see you cry? — J.M. Coetzee

They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when the MMR is routinely given, so the association is merely coincidental and not causal. But the onset of autism at 18 months is a recent development. Autism starting at 18 months rose very sharply in the mid-1980s, when the MMR vaccine came into wide use. A coincidence? Hardly! — Bernard Rimland

What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches. — Octavio Paz

He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to. — Suzanne Collins

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves. — Connie Zweig

I should make sure my brethren don't go too overboard with the root beer. — Rick Riordan

Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It's that fundamental! — Ben Feldman

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try. — Elizabeth Gilbert