Pg 173 Quotes & Sayings

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. — Julian Schnabel

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge. — Simon Pegg

By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of trade. I have myself no more doubt that these metals were prepared by the Almighty for this very purpose, than I have that iron and coal were prepared for the purposes in which they are being used. — Hugh McCulloch

You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither. — Drew Carey

Over time, I have realized that at 20, you can wear too much makeup and people assume you're a slut. Do it at 40 and they think you're a sea witch. — Melodie Ramone

A nothing that said everything. - Pg. 173 — Robert Harris

Flames of another kind. Hellfire. You will believe you canna possibly endure the agony. — Karen Marie Moning

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

I'm an old-fashioned guy. — Demian Bichir

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. — Mary Oliver

A second, less well-known decision was based on his simple calculation "More people, more power." Copying a Soviet system of the same name, Mao created policy preferences for Hero Mothers, women who had many children. At a time when much of the rest of the world, including most of the developing world, saw reductions in population growth, China's average remained at around six children per woman. Over the next two decades, China added the population of South America, even as they'd hampered their agricultural system. — Clay Shirky

Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream ... Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community is a hindrance to genuine community and must be banished if genuine community is to survive. He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer