Quotes About Censuses

#1. Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it.

Atul Gawande

#2. I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

Hannah Kent

#3. A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

George S. Patton Jr.

#4. Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

Matt Taibbi

#5. Darkness loves him. He dances with it like a lover and the moon comes up over the purple hill and what was sweet smells sour. Smells like poison.

Stephen King

#6. Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

Confucius

#7. So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

Billy Bragg

#8. And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

Katharine Hepburn