Kopechne Settlement Quotes & Sayings

Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals. — Don DeLillo

With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter. — Lev Grossman

What is fact? What records did the church, in its misguided attempt to cleanse the past of perceived contradictions, rewrite to suit its preferred narrative? — Brandon Sanderson

Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world. — Graham Nash

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there. — Sean Connery

the more money i gained, the more people came to support, the more people came to support, the more power i became. — Sunil Duggal

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain. — Jodi Picoult

Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest. — Alfred North Whitehead

Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.
From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars — Rivera Sun

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. — Francis Bacon

I think one of the greatest losses to humanity was the domination of women. I think every religious system has found ways to be kind to them in a kind of subordinate way. Very patronizing, very colonial. But if you start looking at the fabric of society, even religious systems, they would fall apart if it wasn't for the embedded ability of the women who are involved. — William P. Young

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. — Stanley Baldwin

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out. — Napoleon Hill

The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king. — Homer

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come. — Francis Bacon