1871 Quotes

#1. War has always been a part of science fiction. Even before the birth of SF as a standalone genre in 1926, speculative novels such as 'The Battle of Dorking' from 1871 showed how SF's trademark 'what if' scenarios could easily encompass warfare.

Paul Di Filippo

#2. I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

Adolf Hitler

#3. The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

George Will

#4. I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

Carl Spitteler

#5. The cascade of water was so vast and mighty, I thought, the angels were not only clapping - they were giving a standing and stomping ovation for a spectacle only God could have created.

Martin Ganda

#6. Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

Lysa TerKeurst

#7. My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn't enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

Brendan Coyle

#8. If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.

Kevin Nealon

#9. My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

Ed Sheeran

#10. I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'

Lesley Manville

#11. Guess what?' I said. 'I have a psychic.'
His head tilted questioningly, birdlike.
A sidekick?

Wally Lamb

#12. I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

Jimmy Carr

#13. Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Mooji

#14. One day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#15. Independence came at a high price: a debt with a payment schedule of hurt and regret.

Rohinton Mistry

#16. Today, and everyday, take as your personal mantra: I am what I am and what I am is wonderful.

Sarah Ban Breathnach