Ingsoc Quotes

#1. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science'. The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

George Orwell

#2. He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form - 'English Socialism',

George Orwell

#3. There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.

Barton Gellman

#4. If you lift people up God will lift you up

Sunday Adelaja

#5. My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

Aaron Sorkin

#6. They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The bottom line is that we've had enormous successes (in Iraq) and we will continue to have enormous successes.

Dick Cheney

#8. Life's a journey, not a destination.

Steven Tyler

#9. Needs could not bully her.

Michel Faber

#10. You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Napoleon Hill

#11. The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Jacqueline Woodson

#12. No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude - not so ... so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible.

Susan Hill

#13. An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

C.S. Lewis

#14. Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.

Napoleon Hill