Runciman David Quotes & Sayings

I don't know how long I kept at it ...
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.
It didn't seem to be summer any more — Sylvia Plath

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. — Charles Caleb Colton

I'm not a madman. — Ray Nitschke

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate. — David Runciman

Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else. — Noam Chomsky

Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff. — David Runciman

America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage. — Ronald Reagan

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us. — Lee Johnson

If you allow someone to be disrespectful to you today, they'll be disrespectful to you tomorrow also, and the day after that, and the day after that and so on. — Sarvesh Jain

It's always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target. — Romain Grosjean

I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy. — Michelle Wie

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head. — Kurt Cobain

I now have my final resting place,Your eyes. — Sapphire Belucci

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other. — Eric Fischl

In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry - and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow's other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal. — Marilyn Strathern

Everything ultimately comes down to trust. — Jay Baer