Observ'd Quotes

#1. Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

John Locke

#2. [T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every Regular Play; namely, of Time, Place, and Action.

John Dryden

#3. I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#4. I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#5. There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

David Starr Jordan

#6. A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.

Isaac Newton

#7. If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

Henry Rollins

#8. The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Emily St. John Mandel

#9. I can't let you break my heart. I don't have much of it left.

Courtney Cole

#10. Seek not for events to happen as you wish but rather wish for events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly.

Epictetus

#11. I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata ... my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.

Prince Royce

#12. My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.

Wendy Harmer

#13. Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

#14. I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.

Meg Wolitzer