Jacobinical Quotes & Sayings

Actually, the Burmese don't refer to her by name. They just call her "The Lady." It's like Voldemort in Harry Potter, "He Who Must Not Be Named. — Guy Delisle

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him. — Zona Gale

Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it. — Nick Hornby

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time. — Hermann Hesse

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact. — Philip Plait

It always struck me in years after how bizarre it was, how two people could look at one another with such tenderness and complete love, and how quickly that could dissolve into nothing but bitterness. — Hannah Harrington

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion. — Blaise Pascal