Magnitude 11 Quotes

#1. This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.

Anthony The Great

#2. Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

Psy

#3. Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed. Added to that, women need righteous and strong men who will help us to use our most cherished gifts: the ability to multitask and problem solve.

Roseanne Barr

#4. I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

Rodman Philbrick

#5. See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster.

Richard Kadrey

#6. We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

Ivan Glasenberg

#7. A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

John Climacus

#8. But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

Alistair Cooke

#9. A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Ernest Bevin

#10. The sterner self of the Populace likes bawling, hustling, and smashing; the lighter self, beer.

Matthew Arnold

#11. Ridicule, nominally amusing but really an expression of hostility, was the favourite weapon - the worst possible, short of actual cruelty, in dealing with young people.

Bertrand Russell

#12. No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

Margaret Atwood

#13. You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

Steven Van Zandt

#14. I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble - everything seems important - so of course nothing is.

Greg McKeown

#15. The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

Jurgen Habermas