Shantyvilles Quotes & Sayings

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?
[Reviewing Charles Babbage's Book, Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830)] — David Brewster

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one. — W.C. Fields

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love. — Jane Austen

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. — Charles Darwin

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. — Major Taylor

No matter how much time goes by, missing someone never gets any better. You just learn to work around it. — Lilith Saintcrow

I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me? — Emma Donoghue

Time is standing still like the sun. We are the ones moving around time like planets orbiting the sun. — Debasish Mridha

I could feel the threads from that world, threatening to pull me in, and I'd take whatever anchor I could get. Even if he was a blond nightmare.
I lifted my head to look at him "How did you find me?"
"Just lucky." The answer was smooth, but it felt like he blurted it out a litle too easily. I narrowd my eyes,but he continued."Why did you lie about the trolls?"
"I didn't." We sat there looking at each other, two seasoned liars,until i couldn't take it anymore."Jack?"
"Hmm?"
"Thanks." My voice cracked a little. "If you hadn't shown up ... "
"If I hadn't shown up,you would have been fine.No need to get sappy on me when I've decided you mmight be some decent fun after all.Now,you happen to be wearing my nicest coat. I'll like very much to get it back, so let's take you home,shall we? — Kiersten White

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence. — William S. Burroughs

The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class ... No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another. — Albert J. Nock

Aristotle said 'we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.'" He — Toni Aleo

People who judge you are often themselves craving approval. — Emma J. Bell

Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it - all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory. — Sigmund Freud

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want. — Catherine Ashton