Annexed Quotes

#1. The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. [On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

Margaret Case Harriman

#3. We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us

J.G. Ballard

#4. Just as it had done with the hills, the mountains, and the swamps, Ravnica had annexed and absorbed the world's lakes without so much as a hiccup.

Ari Marmell

#5. When she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion ... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back.

Nick Hornby

#6. Gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.

Epicurus

#7. I think the gap between Israelis and Palestinians is too deep to be bridged in our generation. Politically, we are in favor of a regional solution. A part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be annexed by Israel, and the other parts should be incorporated in a confederation with Jordan.

Ayelet Shaked

#8. He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one that the family of the former lord is extinguished: the other that neither their laws not their taxes are altered.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

Max Bill

#10. Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them.

Marcel Proust

#11. We have no rose without its thorn; it is the law of our existence; it is the condition annexed to all our pleasures.

Stephanie Dray

#12. Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.

James Madison

#13. In 10 years, this sleepy Canada will be ripe for annexation - the farmers in Manitoba, etc., will demand it themselves. Besides, the country is half annexed already socially - hotels, newspapers, advertising, etc., all on the American pattern.

Friedrich Engels

#14. Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord Byron

#15. Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

Seneca The Younger

#16. Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

Thomas Paine

#17. The Japanese discussed extending their empire, Bexforth went on. They had already annexed the vast region of Manchuria, Greg

Ken Follett

#18. Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

Isaac Barrow

#19. The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

Andre Malraux

#20. The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

John Locke

#21. Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now.

Jeaniene Frost

#22. I didn't ask you to catch me!"
"You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.

Shana Abe

#23. 15 seconds of insane courage can change your life.

Rider Jacobs

#24. Maybe i'm ashamed because it's hard not to feel ashamed, when just being born is something you can be killed for.

Sharon Dogar

#25. From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.

Teresa Of Avila

#26. Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

Bernie Siegel

#27. An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

E. E. Cummings

#28. Maybe I should have gone back to Weight Watchers and tried harder to lose my luscious hips and overlarge ass. If I'd known it might keep me from being abducted by aliens, you bet I would have counted points until Doomsday. It's

Evangeline Anderson

#29. Only love can fill an empty heart with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#30. To think that this is the only universe, that the physical creation is all there is, these are the dogmas of our times.

Frederick Lenz

#31. They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?

Meljean Brook

#32. I want my kids to know when I'm pissed, when I'm happy and when I'm confounded,

Julia Roberts