Hamlets Sanity Quotes & Sayings

[Dan] Brown states that five million women were killed by the Church as witches. In fact, modern research has shown that the witch hunts began in the sixteenth century in Europe and that between 30,000 and 50,000 men and women were burned to death for the crime of witchcraft. However, 90 per cent of those trials took place before secular tribunals in countries such as Germany and France where by the 1500s the Church had lost most of its influence in judicial matters. Indeed, it was precisely in countries like Spain and Italy where the Catholic Church still had influence that there were almost no witchcraft trials. — Michael Coren

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say. — Nina Dobrev

A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it. — Jim Bishop

It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light. — Dave Eggers

It's the noisiest thing I've ever experienced. — Alfred Goodwin

We must say no to illegal immigration so we can continue to say yes to legal immigration. — William J. Clinton

I assumed," Ai-ming told me, "that when Big Mother's stories finished, life would continue and I would go back to being myself. But it wasn't true. The stories got longer and longer, and I got smaller and smaller. When I told my grandmother this, she laughed her head off. She said, 'But that's how the world is, isn't it? Or did you think you were bigger than the world? — Madeleine Thien

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin — Dan Simmons

Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of. — Lisa Kleypas

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. — Chris Lilley

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test. — Morgan Spurlock

I don't believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness. — Margot Adler

I used to stand at the lectern in my coat and tie, waving my glasses around, urging students to find the courage to become themselves. Then I'd go back to the office and lock the door and put my head down on the desk. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

There's a lot of stress and strife in this world. The people you surround yourself with intentionally, that you care about and share things with, shouldn't be part of that stress. — Erin Nicholas