Minorca Quotes

#1. In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

Voltaire

#2. A full stomach allows the brain to be hungry for common sense.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#3. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

Seneca.

#4. That was Mahogany!!

Suzanne Collins

#5. God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.

James MacDonald

#6. I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

Malik Yoba

#7. You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

Warren Zevon

#8. I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

LeCrae

#9. I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.

Philip Kitcher

#10. Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

George Sanders

#11. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

J.M. Coetzee

#12. There is a difference between feeding someone and eating dinner with them. If every Christian at home just made room for the stranger we would end homelessness overnight.

Shane Claiborne

#13. Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Max Weber

#14. (those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence,

Mary Beard