1171 To 1832 Quotes

#1. Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

Karl Polanyi

#2. Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#3. He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

Walter Scott

#4. God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#5. if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.

Charles Kingsley

#6. I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it.

Jo Walton

#7. When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Francois Rabelais

#8. In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on the surface of an emerald. It's the Emerald Tablet,

Paulo Coelho

#9. By then I already knew that I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense.

Jamaica Kincaid

#10. An aging beau. He has probably tried to screw half his staff and doubtless attributes to his charm the few successes that are simply statistical anomalies.

Pierre Lemaitre

#11. The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.

Brian Dennehy