Sylvius Aqueduct Quotes & Sayings

Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For — Jonathan Sacks

Oddly enough, I don't find myself concerned with 'impossible.' It's an enormous relief to know that I'm not having delusions. Nothing real, impossible or not, could be as frightening as that. — Elaine Cunningham

How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it. — W. Averell Harriman

The rabbis of Palestine were acknowledged to hold the advantage over those of Mesopotamia in several distinctive ways: they were more open to those who were not themselves scholars; they were better able to incinerate those who displeased them with a single glare; and they were more obsessively alert to the menace posed by menstruating women. — Tom Holland

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze ... — William Butler Yeats

It may look perfect, but that's one thing I have learned about life is that it isn't always what it looks. — Ann Romney

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground. — Cecily Strong

The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.' — Paul Ryan

I hadn't wanted to shoot him. I was doing whatever I could think of to get him to leave. It had worked. Every was safe. So why did I feel so awful? — Megan Crewe

I do wonder why modern society has made monogamy the one and only option. In England, it's always, 'Are you with him, or him?' Perish the thought it might be both. — Jade Jagger

Dad, it's not optional: your daughter needs you to be her hero. — Meg Meeker

The love of books, the golden key, that opens the enchanted door — Andrew Lang

Society is founded upon Cloth; — Thomas Carlyle

"Wait and see" is no easier now than it was as a child. — Richard Paul Evans

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn't complain. It was normal. — Bernhard Langer