1647 Quotes

#1. Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Victor Hugo

#2. The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

Willa Cather

#3. Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

Ewan McGregor

#4. Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse.

Nicola Yoon

#5. New York is the true City of Light in any season.

Charles Kuralt

#6. Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

Jonathan Raymond

#7. America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.

Charlaine Harris

#8. Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

Joseph Addison

#9. Nothing is more ignorant than choosing man's intelligence over God's.

Beth Moore

#10. Cassius shook his head and sighed "I want to have just one conversation with you that doesn't required GPS to navigate. I'm not asking for the world-just one normal conversation. We used to talk. Remember that?

Gabrielle Evans

#11. We were always fated to be together. He is my everything. He is my entire world...
...Styx is my salvation.

Tillie Cole

#12. John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Meredith Ostrom