Baart Carmichael Quotes

#1. A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

Philip Bobbitt

#2. It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Andrew Davidson

#3. He who receives
Light from above, from the Fountain of Light,
No other doctrine needs, though granted true;
But these are false, or little else but dreams,
Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.

John Milton

#4. We're like dominoes, Beckett and I. I've tipped us forward until everything is set in motion. I can't stop us from colliding. I should enjoy the fall while it lasts. But I know the end is coming too. The quiet. The day where everything has fallen and there's nothing left but a mess.

Rebecca Paula

#5. My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

D.R. Silva

#6. The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

Eddie George

#7. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. If you're going to be a star, you should look like one.

Tom Jones

#9. You must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his life?

Kamala Markandaya

#10. I just wanted to be sure of you.

A.A. Milne

#11. I remember when you could always rely on those little street kids to pop a few people for the latest Nikes," Vice-President John said. "Now people get mugged for Reeboks, for Adidas - for generics, for Christ's sake.

Max Barry

#12. Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.

Lawrence Block