James Harrington Oceana Quotes & Sayings

The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. — Thorstein Veblen

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men. — Kate O'Mara

I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me
crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and now, wounded, go along in the way that they are able. — Elizabeth Berg

The mere thought that she was alone and surrounded by books gave her a near-sensuous thrill. As she looked around her room, dark escaper for the slash of light near her lamp, and saw the vague outlines of her books, she asked herself 'Have I not the whole world? — Andrew Wilson

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future. — Patti Callahan Henry

One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity. — David Gergen

The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could feel it under your feet. A sound without cognate and so without description. Something imponderable shifting out there in the dark. The earth itself contracting with the cold. It did not come again. What time of year? What age the child? ... The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to the waterline. At a crossroads a ground set with dolmen stones where the spoken bones of oracles lay moldering. No sound but the wind. — Cormac McCarthy

The neat binary categories of white and black or male and female are not there when it comes to class. How will they identify the enemy. How will they know who to fear or who the challenge. — Bell Hooks

Why can't there be love that never gets tired? — Mother Teresa

THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld. — James Patterson

Men were just plain ridiculous with how little time it took them to get handsome. — Gina Robinson

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political. — Sarah Gavron

I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself. — William Monahan