Miskellys Quotes & Sayings

I was once adored too. — William Shakespeare

The bladder-pipe, a local Highlands speciality, is to music what warthogs are to mathematics. Largely unconnected. — Mark Lawrence

When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike. — Roger Scruton

People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems. — Charles Kennedy

Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith. — Brendan I. Koerner

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won. — Duop Chak Wuol

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life. — Philip Roth