From Half A Sixpence Quotes

#1. Man is a greater thing than you have thought him,

Edith Hahn Beer

#2. I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out ... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.

Louie Gohmert

#3. Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. ALBUS

J.K. Rowling

#4. Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

Stephen Colbert

#5. I always want to keep things unwritten. I'm inspired by Bob Dylan, who's kept evolving and changing his sound. I think that's what you should do as an artist. Why be comfortable?

Lykke Li

#6. In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Andrew Garfield

#7. No one reaches a high position without daring.

Publilius Syrus

#8. I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history.

John Lone

#9. You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

Peter Lynch

#10. I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.
There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain in there. It, it is just a skull. And still he felt he had to open it
to let energy in there.

Sandra Harner

#11. The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

Lord Kelvin

#12. You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Rick Riordan

#13. Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Milan Kundera

#14. Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

Harry Browne

#15. To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#16. The race isn't over until the race is won!

Tommy Steele