Late Night Overthinking Quotes

#1. England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.

Len Deighton

#2. There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

George VI

#3. He realised how much he hated tyrants, the strong who stood on the weak.

Jonathan Renshaw

#4. The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Shimon Peres

#5. In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.

Mike Barnicle

#6. Michelangelo's girlfriend, who said to Angelo, Forget the paint - let's put a mirror on the ceiling. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#7. Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

E. Millicent Sowerby

#8. I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Lillie Langtry

#9. God's glory is revealed through you to fill the earth

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

John Henry Patterson

#11. People always say to me, 'You have such a clearly defined sense of style,' and when I hear it, I get crazed, because what I hear - and I know they mean it as a compliment - is that I have such a narrow vision that I can't get out of it.

Stanley Donen