Grotius Quotes

#1. When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof! ...

Thomas Carlyle

#2. I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I can call friends, and I have a close knit group of friends whom I feel comfortable with.

Pritam Chakraborty

#3. I think a New Guard-type of Republican - Eric Cantor is a rising star in the party.

Andrea Tantaros

#4. What's the glory in living? Doesn't anybody ever stay together anymore?

Michael Martin Murphey

#5. Change Your Energy, Change Your Life

Jennifer T. Webb

#6. A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

#7. Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.

Timothy Brook

#8. A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Hugo Grotius

#9. Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Hugo Grotius

#10. Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.

Hugo Grotius

#11. By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.

Hugo Grotius

#12. He's got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees; it bothers him that he's got pretty hands.

Ken Kesey

#13. I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn't do.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#14. Me and Call have always liked to get where we started for, even if it don't make a damn bit of sense.

Larry McMurtry

#15. Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#16. Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird.

Shane West

#17. What does it matter?" she asks, and though his answer likely should take a thousand years to come, he gets it out quicker than a snap of the fingers.
"Because I love you!" he says. "Because I'm in love with you, God help me.

Charlotte Stein

#18. The path that one person follows is not the correct path for any other person. Each of us must walk his own path to enlightenment - that is the way.

Wu Wei

#19. Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Hugo Grotius

#20. I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

#21. Shaun's eyes widened, and for a minute, he was speechless. It was a nice minute. When his mouth wasn't messing things up, he was serious eye candy. Unfortunately, it didn't last long.

Jus Accardo

#22. I like candidates who tell me something that is going to make a difference to me.

Ann Richards

#23. Politics is a thing that I follow because it determines what is going on in my country, but I vote and deal with politicians with a great degree of jaundiced eye.

Henry Rollins

#24. I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

Hugo Grotius

#25. Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief;
To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Hugo Grotius