Exemplaire De Facture Quotes

#1. Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Adam Smith

#2. If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

George Ripley

#3. The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

Alain De Botton

#4. I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

Paul Farmer

#5. There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

Dorothy Parker

#6. When did she lose her wonder? When did she start existing and quit living?

Denise Daisy

#7. Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

M. Scott Peck

#8. I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

Suzanne Collins

#9. I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

Lily Allen

#10. Remember why you fell in love in the first place.

Rachel Hauck

#11. There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Barbara Amiel

#12. Sovereignty cannot be a shield for tyrants to commit wanton murder, or an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye to slaughter.

Barrack Obama

#13. The instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

Simone Weil

#14. I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

Li Keqiang

#15. When faced with disaster, learn to laugh faster.

Robert G. Allen