Medievalists Quotes & Sayings

If a man with an ideal makes a thousand mistakes, I am sure that the man without an ideal makes fifty thousand. — Swami Vivekananda

Another reason to watch him avidly for he might pull himself out of
the pool, his whole body slick and those shorts plastered on him was not a sight to see. It was a
sight to prove there was a God and that God might just be Tate. — Kristen Ashley

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. — Sergio Aragones

Come lie down with me, I've longed for nothing as much as your arms these past days. — Jeaniene Frost

Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin. — Richard M. Weaver

They (Medievalists) are soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed. — Isaac Asimov

When in doubt, try nutrition first. — Roger Williams

It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt. — William Lacy Clay Jr.

So at this moment Judd felt eternal solitude coming upon him. The dignity, the consistency, of the deed had been broken; they were no longer wilful gods, but caught boys squirming to throw blame, and he wanted only to detach himself so he might at least retain his own idea of integrity. — Meyer Levin

He'd concluded that not only should females have the right to vote, they should probably be governing the whole darn country. — Debra Holland

And maybe that is where rhythm comes from, I think. Our earliest understanding of rhythm. The sound of our own breath, the beating of our own hearts. — Barbara Hall

During the whole of the fucking Middle Ages, the place where they had it off most of all was the cemeteries! ... people don't face up these odd little sides of things, leave a lot of naughty little facts in the dark out of human decency! A mistake! wrong! ... human decency never holds up! ... with me it's my enemas! the toilet! after two weeks without an enema I have nothing against dying ... and they give it to me so hot that I scream ...
And in Claunau? [i.e. Dachau]
You're right, you're right! I whimper, but I'm spoiled! but were you there, in Claunau? ... My ass you were! doesn't stop you from screeching your fucking lungs out as if you were the first one in and the last one out! — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

He was a bloody genius with these people, slicker than any confidence artist, more popular than whisky in a room full of Irishmen. — Meredith Duran

Gabriel gazed at his reflection in the mirror. To his shock and dismay, he was clad only in his underwear, a cheeky pair of boxer shorts that had the phrase 'Medievalists Do It in the Dark (Ages)' printed all over them in phosphorescent lettering. — Sylvain Reynard

Lawrence argued that despite posing as Islamic reformists "with all the narrow minded bigotry of the puritan," ibn-Saud and his Wahhabists were hardly representative of Islam. Instead, as he warned in "The Politics of Mecca," the Wahhabist sect was composed of marginal medievalists, "and if it prevailed, we would have in place of the tolerant, rather comfortable Islam of Mecca and Damascus, the fanaticism of Nejd ... intensified and swollen by success. — Scott Anderson

I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the State to pay for them. — Charles Clarke

The idea is not to please the most amount of people. Growing up in Versailles, the idea was to please the least amount of people. — Thomas Mars

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us. — George Allen