Massoudi And Jackson Quotes & Sayings

Congress has a responsibility to review research paid for by hard-working American taxpayers. — Lamar S. Smith

He stood erect - as a peg-top does as long as the whip keeps lashing it. He was modest - thanks to a robust conviction of his own superiority. He was unambitious - all he wanted was a life free from cares and he took more pleasure in the failures of others than in his own successes. He saved his life by never risking it - and complained that he was misunderstood. — Dag Hammarskjold

Sidney was beginning to feel uncomfortable. As a priest he was used to informal confession, but he could never quite reconcile himself to the fact that it often contained quite a lot of detail. There were times when he wished people wouldn't tell him so much. — James Runcie

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more. — Eusebius

Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts. — Tad Williams

I thought of Will telling me if I didn't stop bloody whistling he'd be forced to run me over. — Jojo Moyes

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme. — Daniel Radcliffe

A proverb is good sense brought to a point. — John Morley

You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters.
That's not quite the same as wishing to be one — David Mitchell

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain. — Del Quentin Wilber

Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of having listened to Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. Who could ask for more? — Lynn Freed