Famous Enlightenment Quotes

#1. Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

Ban Ki-moon

#2. side, Vicky. I remember how overwhelmed I was when I became a mother; there was that enormous emotional kick, the shock at how deeply rooted my feelings were for someone I'd only just met. But

Emma Curtis

#3. Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

Amity Shlaes

#4. The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

Robert Morse

#5. Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.

John Kador

#6. I dreamt of your legs that night. I dreamt they were wrapped around my back while I f**ked your brains out.

Samantha Young

#7. Novalis and Dostoyevsky, awaited me just as do the mother, or the wife, the children, maids, dogs and cats in the case of more sensible people.

Hermann Hesse

#8. I don't even know how to swim!

Lea Thompson

#9. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.

Winston Graham

#11. We journey to the day,
And tell each other how we sang
To keep the dark away.

Emily Dickinson

#12. Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

Margaret Chan

#13. After a while, a woman can find the satin edges of grace in tragedy's wool blanket.

Susan Reinhardt

#14. People are messy, unpredictable things.

Mary Roach