1251 Quotes

#1. For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.

Jack Weatherford

#2. Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied with intervals of insensibility; and some late philosophers have extended the empire of sleep over the vegetable world.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

#5. I had as lief have been myself alone.

William Shakespeare

#6. A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Jacques Barzun

#7. Shelby scowled. Seriously? Would you want to be called a nephil? It sounds like a bag you carry your shame in. No, thanks. Nephilim it is, no matter how many of us you're talking about.

Lauren Kate

#8. Ernest Hemingway once said, The best way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them.

Anonymous

#9. But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs
all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram ...

Lemony Snicket

#10. Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Julian Huxley

#11. We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

John Selden