Velorama Quotes & Sayings

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success. — Francis Bacon

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise. — Aleksandar Hemon

We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election. — Margaret Thatcher

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. — Ronald J. Sider

All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens. — Maxim Gorky

The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world. — Thomas Piketty