1851 Quotes

#1. Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#2. After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with Robert Robinson. Two such scholarships were awarded each year, and the other was won by Rita Harradence, also of Sydney and also an organic chemist.

John Cornforth

#3. Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true." - from A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject in 1851.

William Wilson

#4. Justice is truth in action.

~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Benjamin Disraeli

#5. Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced - an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6 million in 1851. At least 1 million of those people had died. The rest fled the country, hoping for a new life in another land.

Ryan Hackney

#6. What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Erykah Badu

#7. The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.

Jeffrey Fry

#8. Buddhism is reason. Reason will win over your lord.

Nichiren

#9. Revenge, revenge, revenge. Did you know that humans are the only living creatures to practise revenge? The interesting thing about revenge -

Jo Nesbo

#10. Our power is not so much in us as through us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#11. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

Ben Okri

#12. An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#14. I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' And I said, 'I am.

Demetri Martin

#15. Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Rajneesh