1792 Quotes

#1. In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

Joanna Southcott

#2. The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.

Edmund Morgan

#3. When England introduced drop hanging in 1783 and France introduced the guillotine in 1792, it was a moral advance, because an execution that instantly renders the victim unconscious is more humane than one that is designed to prolong his suffering.

Steven Pinker

#4. The outbreak of war in 1792 offered enticing opportunities to attain longstanding

George C. Herring

#5. I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

Joanna Southcott

#6. LINCKLAEN, JOHN. (Agent of the Holland Land Company.) Journals of Travels into Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont (1791-1792). Translated from French by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. With biographical sketch and notes. New York, Putnams: 1897.

Anonymous

#7. A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.

Nostradamus

#8. In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in 1792 was to be proved by 12 men.

Joanna Southcott

#9. One of the most celebrated victims of this theocratic policy was Shelley (1792-1811) who was expelled from University College, Oxford, for writing a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)

Ron Chernow

#11. Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

William Doyle

#13. If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Andy Rooney

#14. Like sterling silver, love will tarnish unless it is polished with daily applications of interest, involvement, and expressions of love.

Zig Ziglar

#15. A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Lee Grant

#16. I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

Anthony Hamilton

#17. Get your ass to the house, Queen," my brother muttered in a way that let me know he was annoyed and meant business. He ran past me, and the crowd parted to let Juwan through.

Porscha Sterling

#18. God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

#19. I made a commitment ... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Dalton McGuinty

#20. If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it's like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It's hard to go back to the original shape.

Haruki Murakami

#21. The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas, would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too.

Thomas Carlyle

#22. Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#23. Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.

Sarah Hall

#24. A child should learn from early on what kind of activity supported his daily life, and he should appreciate the importance of labor. Tengo

Haruki Murakami