1801 Quotes

#1. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]

Thomas Jefferson

#2. From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history.

Saul David

#3. In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party ... with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

Jane Austen

#4. I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

Stephen Chbosky

#5. You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Arthur Rock

#6. Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

Bob Dylan

#7. I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.

Jessie Ware

#8. There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

Mike Babcock

#9. Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Daniel Pinkwater

#10. If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

Andrew Plotkin

#11. Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.

Nicole Appleton

#12. I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.

William Shakespeare

#14. When you think back, you cry about the happy times and laugh about the times you cried.

Anonymous

#15. A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Aristotle.

#16. The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Winston Churchill

#17. From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

Mortimer J. Adler

#18. Outcome of the present struggle between Russia and Japan, its significance lies in the fact that a nation of the East, equipped with Western weapons and girding itself with Western energy of will, is deliberately measuring strength against one of

Lafcadio Hearn