Politicks Quotes

#1. Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

Robert Hooke

#2. I do not want to muddle about with Politicks, and whenever two Folk of any sort are in a room together there are always Politicks to be muddled in.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

Robert Hooke

#4. I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.

George Mason

#5. Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity.

Steven Storm

#6. My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#7. Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.

Elsa Peretti

#8. I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.

Michael Hirst

#9. Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.

Marcus Luttrell

#10. I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

Emily Dickinson

#11. Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

Simon Patrick

#12. Sometimes a person cannot continue to keep her emotions inside, letting them silently brush against her heart like waves on the shore. Sometimes there's a call for speaking up, and out.

Alice J. Wisler

#13. Careful, Quint. She goes from cute to carnivorous in 2.5 seconds.

C.K. Dawn

#14. I am not frightened,' said Lord Tang. 'I am ashamed.

Terry Pratchett