Top 20 Exactions Quotes
#1. Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.
Elizabeth Bowen
#2. These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.
Bathsua Makin
#3. Who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits.
Charles Dickens
#4. The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.
H.L. Mencken
#5. It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible
because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
#6. A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth
#7. Life is to BIG that I'm suddenly overcome by the highs and lows of it.
Sandra Vischer
#8. I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.
Mike Singletary
#9. Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.
Ana Monnar
#10. Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
Immanuel Kant
#11. I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
Sarah Vowell
#12. The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
Blaise Pascal
#13. Just help him know it's okay to be different. That's what I wish my mom and dad did for me. They didn't have to change, but I wanted to know it was okay for me to change. Women like your mom never had anyone in their corners, but Felix has you.....
Bijou Hunter
#15. If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship.
Steve Maraboli
#16. I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.
Tyson Fury
#17. It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.
Emile Coue
#18. And yet, even as I made these plans, there was a small dismayed corner of my heart. Like those stupid cartoons when you're a kid: little red devil on one shoulder and the little angel in his nightie on the other. My good angel was hiding his eyes.
Josh Lanyon
#19. The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts - the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved.
Carol D. Leonnig