Grandees Quotes

#1. This is why Paine was careful to downplay the distinction between the rich and the poor. He wanted his American readers to focus on distant kings, not local grandees. He wanted them to break with the Crown, not to disturb the class order.

Nancy Isenberg

#2. It's not time or opportunity that is to obtain supremacy; it's determination alone that leads you to move your bone and to have anything done. Laziness leads to none.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#3. I am a man, not a movement," he said. "But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.

Victoria Schwab

#4. Open immigration can't exist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure healthcare and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global

Paul Krugman

#5. Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.

Radhe Maa

#6. I heard he went home to Poughkeepsie and moved back in with his mom.

Francine Prose

#7. I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

Drew Barrymore

#8. As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.

Dean Koontz

#9. Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

John Jakes

#10. If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.

Jimi Hendrix

#11. Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Octavio Paz

#12. And when the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.6

Malcolm Gladwell

#13. Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

Philip Larkin

#14. When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.

Abigail Disney