Wikipedians Quotes & Sayings

Where one, without fault is placed under circumstances sufficient to excite the fears of it reasonable man that another designs to commit it felony, or some great bodily injury upon him, and to afford grounds for reasonable belief that there is imminent clanger of the accomplishment of his design, lie may, acting under these fears alone, slay his assailant and be justified by the appearances. And as where the attack is sudden and the danger inuninent, lie may increase his peril by retreat; so situated, he may stand his ground ... and .slay his aggressor, even if it he proved lie might more easily have gained by Jli~rht. — Richard Maxwell Brown

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. — Benjamin Franklin

So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together. Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of the ship by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows, stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better to guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped himself into a sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which he swung as in a loosened belt. Few or no words were spoken; and the silent ship, as if manned by painted sailors in wax, day after day tore on through all the swift madness and gladness of the demoniac waves. — Herman Melville

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church. — John Calvin

Lawford had soundlessly stolen a pace or two nearer, and by stopping forward he could, each in turn, scrutinize the little intent company sitting over his story around the lamp at the further end of the table; squatting like little children with their twigs and pins, fishing for wonders on the brink of the unknown. — Walter De La Mare

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs. — Samuel Warren Carey

Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience. — Dinesh D'Souza

Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this. — Pope Francis

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path. — Tariq Ramadan

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper. — James Gleick

Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways. — Gwendolyn Heasley

In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest. — James Gleick

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know? — Scott Cawthon

I don't have enough money to be a dreamer. — Fernando Pessoa

That was the best not-sex ever. — Richelle Mead