Unsightedly Quotes & Sayings

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else. — A.J.P. Taylor

When wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice - — Brian D. McLaren

Everyone has emotions; you just learn to use then and be comfortable with them. — Mitch Gaylord

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations. — Seth Shostak

Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity. — Ovid

Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence. — Howard W. Hunter

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. — Claire Denis

Telling one's friends to buy a book is a waste of time. One has to produce it from one's pocket and press it into their hands. The least one can hope for is that they'll leave it lying about in their drawing-rooms and talk as though they'd read it. — Robert Baldwin Ross

You can drive the devil out of your garden but you will find him again in the garden of your son. — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

You know what scholars are like; no conscience at all when it comes to their own field, let alone a sense of social delicacy. — Diana Gabaldon

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism. — Henry Clay

Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me? — Katherine Boo

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. — Oscar Wilde

I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible. — John Caudwell