Alarums Excursions Quotes

#1. Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.

Kangana Ranaut

#2. For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

David E. Kelley

#3. Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#4. I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Andy Warhol

#5. Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.

Elizabeth Warren

#6. Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus

#7. Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

Alan Cohen

#8. The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.

Tina Fey

#10. The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.

Edward Gibbon

#11. empathy is more powerful than sympathy

Angie Thomas

#12. Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark

Duncan Fletcher

#13. He needed the hand on his shoulder, the kiss to his temple and the hot, ragged breath of his Master over his face.

Casey K. Cox

#14. In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman