Grotius Hugo Quotes & Sayings

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily-digestible garbage. — Marilyn Manson

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough ... we're only paid for breakthroughs. — Bill Gates

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. — Hugo Grotius

There are several kinds of land on reservations. And all of these pieces of land have different entities who are in charge of enforcing laws on this land. — Louise Erdrich

Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us. — Keith Wright

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason — Hugo Grotius

The weapons-violence hypothesis is far too simplistic a basis on which to base sound public policy. — Daniel D. Polsby

I jumped up in the bubble, yo kid where are you? (114 between Manhattan and Morningside Avenue) This happened just right out the blue — Big Noyd

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves. — Hugo Grotius

There is none of you who would not publicly exclaim that everyone should be moderator and arbitrator in his own matter, who would not command all citizens to use rivers and public places equally and indifferently, who would not with all his power defend the liberty of going hither and thither and trading. — Hugo Grotius

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor. — Chris Burke

I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human. — Hugo Grotius

Even God cannot make two times two not make four. — Hugo Grotius

Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff. — Anne Lamott

I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers. — James Badge Dale

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. — Hugo Grotius

'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read. — Mark Twain

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human. — Hugo Grotius

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. — Rumi

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages. — Hugo Grotius

By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing. — Hugo Grotius

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. — Hugo Grotius

In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES — Xavi

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change. — Sheila Ballantyne

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin. — Rosa Parks