Robertet Quotes & Sayings

being then just dinner-time, we went, first into the great kitchen, where every prisoner's dinner was in course of being set out separately (to be handed to him in his cell), with the regularity and precision of clock-work. I said aside, to Traddles, that I wondered whether it occurred to anybody, that there was a striking contrast between these plentiful repasts of choice quality, and the dinners, not to say of paupers, but of soldiers, sailors, labourers, the great bulk of the honest, working community; of whom not one man in five hundred ever dined half so well. But I learned that the 'system' required high living; and, in short, to dispose of the system, once for all, I found that on that head and on all others, 'the system' put an end to all doubts, and disposed of all anomalies. Nobody appeared to have the least idea that there was any other system, but THE system, to be considered. — Charles Dickens

How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter? — Bel Kaufman

You best keep to yourself, except you never can. — Marilynne Robinson

Does mathematics carry its own ontological clout? — Jim Holt

I'm crushing hard here, Smart-Pants. — C.M. Stunich

My music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply. — Klaus Nomi

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult ... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. — Og Mandino

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men listened closer to calm tones than to the loudest shouts, so long as firmness and certainty accompanied the calm. — Robert Jordan

I seek the truth," Shallan said. "Wherever it may be, whoever may hold it. That's who I am. — Brandon Sanderson

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it now I see what a quorum is! — Elizabeth Gaskell