Pre Revolutionary Quotes

#1. The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.

Bernard Bailyn

#2. Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

#3. What's a horse doing on a spaceship"
"What's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Mickey, get a little perspective!"
Dr. Who "The Girl In The Fireplace

Stephen Moffat

#4. She's got legs like a stork, no arse worth speaking of, and great cow-like eyes. call that a woman?' 'You just like big tits', chentsov retorted. 'That's an outmoded, pre-revolutionary point of view

Vasily Grossman

#5. Another example may be the robust revival today of traditional or pre-revolutionary beliefs, rituals, customs, ceremonies, and even superstitions, most of which were once strenuously denounced and suppressed during the nation's drive for a cosmopolitan modernity.

Xiaobing Tang

#6. I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#7. Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.

Steven Morrissey

#8. Politics is the one field you don't age out of.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

Jeremy Lin

#10. As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable.

Justin Bieber

#11. Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.

Gloria Steinem

#12. What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?"
Scott couldn't help but smirk.
"I blame chocolate.

Geoffrey Knight

#13. We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself.

David Starkey