Astick Quotes

#1. By the English common law, her husband was her lord and master. He had the custody of her person, and of her minor children. He could 'punish her with astick no bigger than his thumb,' and she could not complain against him.

Harriet Hanson Robinson

#2. ... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.

Jeremy Paxman

#3. These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.

Archilochus

#4. We must do everything to insure they [the Palestinians] never do return ... The old will die and the young will forget.

David Ben-Gurion

#5. You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.

Erica Albright

#6. I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

Sebastian Faulks

#7. My second thought was, I'm prettier than her.

Jenny Han

#8. When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

Cary Elwes

#9. I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.

Rupert Grint