Englishmans Quotes & Sayings

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. — William Shakespeare

Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp. — William Everson

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation — Dale Carnegie

The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it. — Daniel Ellsberg

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed. — Christopher Isherwood

We see the world as less random than it actually is. — Nassim Taleb

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers. — Laura Nyro

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time. — Peter Quennell

In works of labour,
or of skill,
I would be busy, too;
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it. — Sofia Vergara

Looked like he could go six rounds with Chuck Norris without breaking a sweat. — Rick Riordan

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry. — Daniel Kahneman

He [Lyndon Johnson] hated the war. He hated having anybody put in harm away. But he believed that what we were doing is what we had to do for our commitments with SEATO, for many reasons. And he was carrying forth a policy that he had inherited. And he tried and got us to the peace table in 1968. — Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little? — Michelle Goldberg

Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place. — John McLeod