Belmotte Quotes

#1. Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation
every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

Dodie Smith

#2. What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone.

Bias Of Priene

#3. By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

Ibn Warraq

#4. Food and clothes sustain
Body and life;
I advise you to learn
Being as is.
When it's time,
I move my hermitage and go,
And there's nothing
To be left behind.

Layman Pang

#5. Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

William Hamilton

#6. It is yours women's to be silent and stay within doors.

Aeschylus

#7. Persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science ...
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Thomas Carlyle

#8. Theros Ironfeld said once that - in all the years he had lived - he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.

Margaret Weis

#9. I never should have looked. I wish I'd never seen it. Then that sight wouldn't be jabbed into my heart like a splinter that never goes away."
On-chan

Yuyuko Takemiya

#10. I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work.

Charles Duhigg

#11. God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

Elizabeth George

#12. What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not sound. Repairs may last a long time. Christ designs to make us both safe and sound. Justification gives the first - safety; sanctification gives us the second - soundness.

Agatha Christie

#14. The secret of life is knowing what you want and asking for it.

Lailah Gifty Akita