Grimshawe House Quotes & Sayings

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard. — Hans Blix

With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe. — Debasish Mridha

Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. But those exertions of the natural liberty of a few individuals, which might endanger the security of the whole society, are, and ought to be, restrained by the laws of all governments; of the most free, as well as or the most despotical. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed. — Adam Smith

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even. — Robert B. Parker

He was hopelessly in debt to his landlady, and was afraid of meeting her. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Yale professor Dan Kahan has done much research showing that our judgments about risks - Does gun control make us safer or put us in danger? - are driven less by a careful weighing of evidence than by our identities, which is why people's views on gun control often correlate with their views on climate change, even though the two issues have no logical connection to each other. Psycho-logic trumps logic. And when Kahan asks people who feel strongly that gun control increases risk, or diminishes it, to imagine conclusive evidence that shows they are wrong, and then asks if they would change their position if that evidence were handed to them, they typically say no. That belief block is holding up a lot of others. Take it out and you risk chaos, so many people refuse to even imagine it. — Philip E. Tetlock

I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home. — Charles Grodin

Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. — Wentworth Miller

I was flying right toward him (the pig) at the speed of demigod-smashing. — Rick Riordan

My friends will help me stay grounded, and so will my family. — Rowan Blanchard

Love isn't just a matter of looking at someone, I think now, but also of looking with them, of facing what they face. — Garth Greenwell