Learnedly Quotes

#1. We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

Thomas Carlyle

#2. I don't care about the weight. You know, I'm lucky; I'm one of those people - I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.

Louis C.K.

#3. A king who trusts no man is weak.

Patricia Briggs

#4. Actually, this is an interesting question,' the instructor said. 'What is the difference between culture and law? In France, we say we are French before we are anything else.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#5. It is not yours save by unhappy chance. It might have been mine. It should be mine. Give it to me!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. The proudest city in all the world was gone in an instant, its fabled empire vanished in a day, the Lands of the Long Summer scorched and drowned and blighted.

George R R Martin

#7. Patience takes away lots of stress, regrets, & sleepless nights knowing that all is well at the end of the day if we just wait a little bit.

Assegid Habtewold

#8. A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

Sadao Araki

#9. I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

Andrew Shue

#10. The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

Norm MacDonald

#11. I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

Hugh Laurie

#12. If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

Maria Mies