Top 15 Lantra Schedule Quotes
#2. No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.
Virginia Woolf
#3. At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.
Yuval Noah Harari
#4. What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe ... but thankfully it's still intact.
Ben Saunders
#5. He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
#6. The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all ... I see I can do anything.
Swami Vivekananda
#7. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.
Virginia Woolf
#8. In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.
Ann Leckie
#9. Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
Peter Lynch
#10. The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#11. when you put your house in order, you put your affairs and your past in order, too. As a result, you can see quite clearly what you need in life and what you don't, and what you should and shouldn't do.
Marie Kondo
#12. Took a vow to protect and serve,
All you do is disrespect and murder.
I ask that you not hurt my kids;
This is where you work ... this is where I live.
Ka
#13. How does it feel being a woman's weakness? I mean a real woman. I mean a real weakness.
Sofia Navarro
#14. A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.
Francis Atterbury
#15. If you had to hurt somebody or intimidate them or kill them, it would be morally justifiable.
Jerry Vlasak