Quotes About 399

#1. General Electric rather miraculously came back with a bid of $554,000. But Westinghouse, whose AC system was inherently cheaper and more efficient, bid $399,000. The exposition went with Westinghouse, and helped change the history of electricity.

Erik Larson

#2. Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is one of the philosophers who has had the greatest influence on European thought, not least because of the dramatic manner of his death.

Jostein Gaarder

#3. The record from the Vostok core shows that CO2 levels and temperatures have varied in tandem. Current CO2 levels are unprecedented in the last 420,000 years. Credit: J.R. Petit et al, Nature, vol. 399 (1999).

Elizabeth Kolbert

#4. But now, I was beginning to wonder if you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's enough- more than enough, even- just to be there.
~Ruby, pg 399

Sarah Dessen

#5. Driven by a concern with institutions, we re-enter the world of the behavioralists. But we do so not in protest against the notion of rational choice, but rather in an effort to understand how rationality on the part of individuals leads to coherence at the level of society. (Bates 1988, p. 399)

Elinor Ostrom

#6. In the year 399 B.C.[E.] he was accused of "introducing new gods and corrupting the youth," as well as not believing in the accepted gods. With a slender majority, a jury of five hundred found him guilty.

Jostein Gaarder

#7. Oh yes, we're going to brawl, baby. Over you. Again.

Lauren Kate

#8. I was in a department store and the clerk came up to me and said "do you want to lay on the couch' I said "Where's your clip board?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

J.K. Rowling

#10. I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.

Jimmy Cliff

#11. We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#12. Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

Sallust

#13. I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

Christian Wiman

#14. Why must women torment me so?

Theodore Dreiser

#15. To me, the moment you're talking about nonfiction you're talking about reality.

David Shields

#16. You just can't believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.

Luis Suarez

#17. Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

Ernest Hemingway,

#18. I have one weakness: I love meat loaf.

Jackee Harry

#19. In a country where people are not reading and thinking much, the sun is already set!

Mehmet Murat Ildan