Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Plath

There is no life higher than the grasstops

Swami Vivekananda

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

Starhawk

Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Soren Kierkegaard

The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.

Stephenie Meyer

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Stephen Colbert

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Stefan Zweig

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Thomas Pynchon

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

Thomas Jefferson

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Thomas Frank

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

Thomas Friedman

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Woody Allen

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William Saroyan

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

William James

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

Will Durant

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Will Durant

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.