Fionn Ferreira Quotes & Sayings

What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position. — Helen Maryles Shankman

When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide, His Majesty displays the pretensions and naive selfishness of an Italian who considers that his charm and good looks will enable him to get away with anything. — Adam Hochschild

I write to escape. I haven't managed it yet, but I'm working on it — William Meikle

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon ... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void. — C.S. Lewis

Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations. — Galileo Galilei

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News. — Gloria Steinem

...the world kept turning and the Turtle moved. — Terry Pratchett