1885 O Quotes

#1. Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

Rolf Potts

#2. A real apology cost something, because you had to stand there like an idiot and say it out loud for the world to hear - I'M SORRY. And the world, as always, would respond with a resounding, 'Yes. Yes, you are.

David Arnold

#3. Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.

Che Guevara

#4. The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Yasutani Roshi

#5. Oh heart! Oh blood that freezes, blood that burns! Earth's returns For whole centuries of folly, noise and sin! Shut them in, With their triumphs and their glories and the rest! Love is best. "Love Among the Ruins," Robert Browning, 1885

Craig Johnson

#6. Don't ever take a seven-year-old with you to a campaign dinner - they will embarrass you no end.

Ertharin Cousin

#7. Nate Shaw is the pseudonym of a black farmer born in Alabama in 1885.

Wendell Berry

#8. While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

Calamity Jane

#9. I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.

Sigmund Freud

#10. The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

Ring Lardner

#11. A bird, music and food -desert island items

Michael Johnson

#12. If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George Patton Jr. (1885-1945)

Thad Forester

#13. between 1885 and 1908 the pursuit of growth and profits cost the lives of 6 million individuals (at least 20 per cent of the Congo's population).

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
["Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885.]

George Eliot

#15. Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.

Jane Leavy

#16. I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands ...

Hal Blaine