Jacobite Rising Quotes & Sayings

I used to take my car and go down to the South Island for five or six days and climb glaciers and jump out of planes and jump off bridges and go white water rafting - a bit of thrill-seeking. — Luke Evans

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights. — Lynn Samuels

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. — Amartya Sen

I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories. — Garth Kravits

Must have stayed that way for some time; I slept sometimes, dreaming of the last few days of the Jacobite Rising - I saw again the dead man in the wood, asleep beneath a coverlet of bright blue fungus, and Dougal MacKenzie dying on the floor of an attic in Culloden House; the ragged men of the Highland army, asleep in the muddy ditches; their last sleep before the slaughter. I would wake screaming or moaning, — Diana Gabaldon

After nonfiction was science fiction. No one knows why science fiction is kept separately form the rest of the nonfiction. Tradition is a powerful thing. These shelves were much less censored than the main nonfiction section, since science fiction tended to be about day-to-day stuff that everyone already knew. — Joseph Fink

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting. — James McAvoy

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea. — Samuel Beckett

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest. — Samuel Gompers

the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments. — Charles Stross

Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it. — Idries Shah

Create an environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. Surround yourself with caring and positive people who support you, and reflect who you want to be. — Steve Maraboli

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. — Eleanora Duse