Top 40 Derbyshire Quotes
#1. The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring county to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, in addition to every other source of happiness, were within thirty miles of each other.
Jane Austen
#2. Matthais: *Sighs* England. I'd take my Valentine to England on a tour of all the places from Jane Austen's books. Derbyshire, Mr. Darcy's house. Places like that.
Ayden: You're really milking that whole dark, brooding thing.
A&E Kirk
#3. The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.
D.H. Lawrence
#4. Surprisingly few outsiders know about the Cuckmere Valley, and it is not uncommon for people to confuse Alfriston with Alfreton in the Derbyshire Peak District.
David Hewson
#5. Let me see: There's Miss Garnnett in Ireland, in June of 1770; Miss Nightjar in Swansea on April 3, 1901; Miss Avocet and Miss Bunting together in Derbyshire on Saint Swithin's Day of 1867; Miss Treecreeper I don't remmeber where exactly
oh, and dear Miss Finch.
Ransom Riggs
#6. I need to maintain a home in Derbyshire and in London to be able both to represent my constituents and to fulfil my responsibilities as an MP and as a minister.
Geoff Hoon
#7. If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be...I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around - that there are enough ideas in the universe and enough nourishment.
Milton Glaser
#8. If you're not thinking about numbers, you're probably not thinking.
John Derbyshire
#9. Conservatism is pessimistic, with a negative tendency - which we mostly resist - towards despair. Liberals are optimists, with a negative tendency, rarely resisted, towards utopianism.
John Derbyshire
#10. Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.
John Derbyshire
#11. Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
John Derbyshire
#12. Suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out.
Susan May Warren
#13. Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
John Derbyshire
#14. Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.
John Derbyshire
#15. A light that I thought had been extinguished was slowly coming back to life.
Jaycee Dugard
#16. Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.
John Derbyshire
#17. It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.
John Derbyshire
#18. Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.
John Derbyshire
#19. Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.
John Derbyshire
#20. (which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).
John Derbyshire
#21. Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.
John Derbyshire
#22. A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.
John Derbyshire
#23. Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!
John Derbyshire
#24. We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.
Malcolm Gladwell
#25. The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias
John Derbyshire
#26. Just for a moment, amid all the bad stuff, this was a happy place again.
Caroline Green
#27. A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
Mignon McLaughlin
#28. Having a boy see you, acknowledge you in such a way that you felt sure no one had ever experienced that feeling before, all the while knowing you'd joined a long line of people who did the same dance to find the person they spend their lives with.
Kiera Cass
#29. You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
Michael Steele
#30. You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.
Alan Alda
#31. Biophobia is as much a part of a politician's basic equipment as a sharp suit.
John Derbyshire
#32. Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.
John Derbyshire
#34. I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
John Derbyshire
#35. A very civilized thing, glass - almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.
John Derbyshire
#38. In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.
John Derbyshire
#39. The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.
John Derbyshire
#40. I have a Thompson SubMachine gun and we shoot sharks with it. As soon as they put their heads out we give them a burst.
Ernest Hemingway,
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