Mancall Quotes

#1. Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?
7/14/09 interview with Peter Mancall, author of Fatal Journey

Jon Stewart

#2. The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.

Benjamin Tucker

#3. People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

Clive James

#4. There is much that I remember but which is painful to dwell on. I see no need to write about these things. They are over and must be accepted, made sense of and forgiven, afforded no more than their proper place in a long life in which I have always known that happiness is a gift, not a right.

P.D. James

#5. I don't think we can afford to wait when it comes to cybersecurity. I think that every day we wait, if an attack occurs - and we're getting hit every day - but if a greater attack occurs, it's going to be on the head of Congress for not acting.

Michael McCaul

#6. I realized that I'd destroyed my legitimacy with myself, and maybe that was worse than my public legitimacy being destroyed.

Sierra Simone

#7. Absently, she wondered if finding one's place in the world always felt like this, as if an audible click could be heard

Melissa Marr

#8. My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Aaron Levie

#9. The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

Jill Johnston

#10. All middle men are bad.

Syd Barrett

#11. Essentially, meditation means to experientally realize that you are not an individual bubble - you are a universe.

Sadghuru

#12. She smiled at him, and Val felt his heart trip on the next few beats. Good God, she was lovely. Just sitting here outside the Rooster, cradling her mug in her hands. A little dusty, a little tired, but in her warm, earthy dark-eyed way, she was beautiful.

Grace Burrowes

#13. Moods can be contagious. Don't catch or spread a bad mood.

Marilyn Suttle

#14. MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

Si Robertson