Brave New World Linda Quotes

#1. During the summers, when I'm in Maine, I work at a desk that's located beyond all tendrilly wi-fi reaches. It takes me a few days to break the constant e-mail-checking habit, then I find I don't want to check my e-mail ever, and often don't for days.

Heidi Julavits

#2. The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can't afford it.

Dick Gregory

#4. Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. For inside him there are spirits, or at least little genii, which have seen to it that for a collector - and I mean a real collector, a collector as he ought to be - ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Walter Benjamin

#6. It was the first time she'd consciously accepted that fact ... and the fear that came with the knowledge. Martin had hurt her, but Riaz, he could savage her. He does these things and they take my breath away, make my chest hurt.

Nalini Singh

#7. We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

Linda Chavez

#8. When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.

Bridgit Mendler

#9. If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

Lysander Spooner

#10. I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

Elvis Presley

#11. IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound ... properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

Ambrose Bierce