Resumable Downloader Quotes & Sayings

No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift. — J.G. Holland

No one has ever been modern. Modernity has never begun. There has never been a modern world. The use of the past perfect tense is important here, for it is a matter of a retrospective sentiment, of a rereading of our history. I am not saying that we are entering a new era; on the contrary we no longer have to continue the headlong flight of the post-post-postmodernists; we are no longer obliged to cling to the avant-garde of the avant-garde; we no longer seek to be even cleverer, even more critical, even deeper into the 'era of suspicion'. No, instead we discover that we have never begun to enter the modern era. Hence the hint of the ludicrous that always accompanies postmodern thinkers; they claim to come after a time that has not even started! — Anonymous

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing. — Robert Fisk

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste. — Alton Brown

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense. — Elizabeth Zimmermann

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail,
strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. — John Ruskin

The Postman Always RingsTwice. — James Cagney

Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon — Steven D. Levitt