1888 Quotes

#1. We should remember what Bismarck said in 1888: "If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans." Balkan

George Friedman

#2. It quite often makes me feel sad that painting's like a bad mistress one might have, who's always spending, spending and it's never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888]

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

Otto Von Bismarck

#4. Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

Winston Churchill

#5. Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edward Carpenter

#6. IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him coming towards them in the streets of Berlin, indeed, who in their dislike of him actually maintained that he must be an evil old man. Small, but well

Hermann Broch

#7. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - OSCAR WILDE, 1888

Erin Morgenstern

#8. He need not consider appearances, being indeed more concerned for his disappearances. Jack the Ripper.

Billy Helston

#9. I am not your kind," Vos said, his voice thick. "I do not feed off vengeance." Truth was quiet. It did not need to shout or to demand. It simply existed. "I am a Jedi.

Christie Golden

#10. Never worry what other people think of you, because no one ever thinks of you.

Brian K. Vaughan

#11. You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character's life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live.

Laura Dockrill

#12. Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are.

Melissa Hayden

#13. anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.

Douglas Preston

#14. The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson