Lewis Namier American Revolution Quotes & Sayings

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. — Leon Battista Alberti

The one sure thing about Marbury is that it's a horrible place. But so is right here, too. And there's certain benefit in the obviousness of its brutality, because in Marbury there's no doubt about the nature of things: good and evil, or guilt and innocence, for example. Not like here, where you could be sitting in the park next to a doctor or someone and not have any idea what a sick and dangerous sonofabitch he really is. Because we always expect things to be proper, even if we haven't learned our fucking lesson that it just doesn't work out like that all the time. — Andrew Smith

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job. — Howard Fast

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. — John Muir

Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure. — Bob Hope

I cannot give up chasing after happiness simply because there might be pain down the road. — Jennifer Beckstrand

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.' — Patrick Schwarzenegger

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater. — Cynthia Weil

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art. — Harley King

Relaxed Empiricism
I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. — Bill Bailey

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert

He was a man with a purpose. Not a very good purpose, as he would have been the first to admit, but it was at least a purpose, and it did at least keep him on the move. — Douglas Adams

Do you know what I thought that first night I saw Jenna?" She tried to move again, but he blocked her path. "I saw a beautiful woman I wanted to spend the night with."
"Do you know what I think when I see you? Every single time?" he asked softly.
"I see a beautiful woman who I want to spend my life with. — Jessica Calla