Latchetts Quotes & Sayings

Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims. — Anjem Choudary

One must have first of all a solid foundation. — Sri Aurobindo

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment. — George Orwell

It's the books I love best that are the hardest to write about. I don't want to take one angle on them, I want to dive into them and quote huge chunks and tell you everything about them, and it just isn't possible. — Jo Walton

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. — Anne Frank

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough. — Jay McInerney

One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back. — Noureen DeWulf

A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect. He only notices the mistake to which he pays attention, because his opponent took advantage of it. How much more complex than this is the game of war, which occurs under certain limits of time, and where it is not one will that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills! — Leo Tolstoy

The Bible is to the theologian what nature is to the scientist, a body of unorganized, or only partly organized facts. God has not seen fit to write the Bible in the form of a systematic theology; it remains for us, therefore, to gather together the scattered facts and to build them up into a logical system. — Henry Clarence Thiessen