Rabbles Quotes & Sayings

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. — Susan Faludi

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God. — Richard Curtis

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken. — Jules Verne

Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country. — Carl Forti

I'm not much of cook, but I cook a mean bowl of oatmeal. — Mahershala Ali

It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold. — Sigurd F. Olson

Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I love this young people's music. — Mr. Krabs

Old soldiers never die, they write novels. — James Jones

Swords, Lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives have had far less power over the fates of nations than the typhus louse, the plague flea, and the yellow-fever mosquito. Civilizations have retreated from the plasmodium of malaria, and armies have crumbled into rabbles under the onslaught of cholera spirilla, or of dysentery and typhoid bacilli. Huge areas have bee devastated by the trypanosome that travels on the wings of the tsetse fly, and generations have been harassed by the syphilis of a courtier. War and conquest and that herd existence which is an accompaniment of what we call civilization have merely set the stage for these more powerful agents of human tragedy. — Hans Zinsser

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one. — George Mikes

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining. — Ann Beattie