Gullivers Travels Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine. — Eudora Welty

There's a whole lot of America that looks at each other and says, 'Well, there's 340 million people living in America. Isn't there somebody other than a Bush or a Clinton who can be president in these modern times?' — Jeb Bush

But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious. — Tad Williams

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family. — Don Rickles

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word. — Stella Adler

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. — Asa Gray

If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam — Hamza Yusuf

In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in the areas of what is called the New Agenda ... we have to confront ... what I dare to call the Anglo-Saxon prejudice against the establishment of supra-national organizations. — Vicente Fox

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land. — Barbara W. Tuchman

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible. — Paul McCartney

I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more. — Donald Miller

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else — Lemony Snicket

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. — Tom Peters

Fuck you.
I countered, demonstrating my keen skill at argument. — Julie Kenner