Top 14 Birkenhead House Quotes
#1. I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.
Hugh Laurie
#2. The collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.
Robyn Donald
#3. You don't get to choose if get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have a say in who hurts you.
John Green
#4. We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl Of Birkenhead
#5. The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.
James Howard Kunstler
#6. The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.
Ernst Kretschmer
#7. Louisa cast a glance at Jane. Jane refused to meet
Rose Gordon
#8. The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
Jackson Katz
#10. The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
William Hazlitt
#11. You can't tell any kind of a story without having some kind of a theme, something to say between the lines.
Robert Wise
#12. To the best of my judgment, when I look at the human character I see no virtue placed there to counter justice. But I see one to counter pleasure: self-control.
Marcus Aurelius
#13. Jesus did not need a rod like Moses or a mantle like Elijah to deal with water
Herbert Lockyer
#14. I will no longer allow anyone to manipulate my mind and control my life in the name of love.
Miguel Ruiz
