Laureates Award Quotes & Sayings

In a world divided by differences of nationality, race, colour, religion and wealth [the rule of law] is one of the greatest unifying factors, perhaps the greatest, the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion. — Tom Bingham

The words of healing restore the wounded soul. — Euginia Herlihy

It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in the apprehension of the consumer, a necessary of life. — Thorstein Veblen

When things go smoothly, then we can pretend we are something very special. But something happens, something unexpected, then we are forced to act like normal human beings. — Dalai Lama XIV

So yeah. Jesse Walker was giving me the silent treatment. I was probably the only person who could claim that honor. — Nicole Williams

I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially. — Andrew Bird

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust. — Gautama Buddha

The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order — Angela Carter

If the British think they can simply detach from the continent and sail towards the USA or China, then they are mistaken. — Yanis Varoufakis

One more weekend with Whiskey, and then I'd have to let him go.For good. — Kandi Steiner

i didn't want your smile ,
i didn't want your tears,
i just want you to smile with tears. — Sushil Singh

He cut right through the layers of civilization, politeness, and social snobbery to some preternatural female sense that said, "Dominant male. Danger. Power. Sex." Why — Ilona Andrews

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning. — Joris-Karl Huysmans