1686 Quotes

#1. And thus I left the island, the 19th of December, as I found by the ship's account, in the year 1686, after I had been upon it eight-and-twenty years, two months, and nineteen days;

Daniel Defoe

#2. I'm going back to my parrot head friends.

Jimmy Buffett

#3. Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.

Naya Rivera

#4. It is interesting that it is not the getting of any sort of knowledge that God has forbidden, but, specifically, the knowledge of the difference between good and evil-that is, abstract and moral judgments, which, if they reside anywhere, reside in the neocortex.

Carl Sagan

#5. You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!

Brian Tracy

#6. I needn't be offended every time I have to look at you

Naomi Novik

#7. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#8. Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

Richard Mitchell

#9. There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

Wayne Coyne

#10. I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.

Vandana Shiva

#11. At the end of those exhausting sufferings, I turned toward that part of me that loves no one and sought refuge there. There I caught my breath. Then I returned, with head lowered, into the thickets and the thorn.s

Albert Camus

#12. I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

Tatum O'Neal