Furet Quotes & Sayings

I have no right to love you, but I do. — Ellen Hopkins

For the same reason that the Ancien Regime is thought to have an end but no beginning, the Revolution has a birth but no end. — Francois Furet

Weasels piss on you, Iz. I'm not done yet. — Susan Dennard

Why this meaningless talk about the believer, the kafir, the obedient, the sinner, the rightly guided, the misdirected, the Muslim, the pious, the infidel, the fire worshipper? All are like beads in a rosary. — Anonymous

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. — Rumi

As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six. — Penny Reid

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. — Francois Furet

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy. — Thomas Watson

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein

Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future. — Francois Furet

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? — Joyce Maynard

Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. — Brian Kernighan

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way. — Agnes Repplier

As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever. — Jay Parini

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet. — Winston Churchill

If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised. — Mitch Hedberg