Epociile Quotes & Sayings

the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal; — Karl Polanyi

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. — Edward Abbey

Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal

Not the most beautiful, or artistic, or intellectual of cities in Italy, Ascoli Piceno is certainly one of the most easy going and affable, good to look at without being awesome. It is energetic and worldly, and it eats well. — Kate Simon

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance

When you are in a hole, stop digging! — Bill McKibben

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. — Phyllis McGinley

I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant. — Prince William

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe. — Pico Iyer

But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich. — William L. Shirer

It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end. — Anne Tyler

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart. — Justin Trudeau

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As a Jew, I recognize the importance of Israel historically, liturgically: its place in our history and in our sacred texts. I fully recognize and appreciate that. I just think that, for me, a sole focus on Israel gets in the way of the pursuit of a relationship with God and a more spiritual existence within Judaism. — David Gregory

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible! — Timur Vermes