Quotes About Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

#1. Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

James Howell

#2. This wasn't supposed to be like this. It was supposed to be beautiful. What the fuck?

Matthew Quick

#3. The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Caroline Alexander

#4. Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world.

John Connolly

#5. Clark knew that the time would come to put a smiley corporate face on his ferocious ambition.

Michael Lewis

#6. The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

Andrew Rosenthal

#7. The clearest sign of coming catastrophe is when all the bad shit in your life suddenly stops. You're entering the eye of the shitstorm.

Leah Raeder

#8. If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.

A.B. Simpson

#9. I'm not new to this just got to get use, to this I have another account I have to fix this.

Shawanda Carter

#10. Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

Toni Morrison

#11. So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene.

James Gleick

#12. SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans, Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.

Barbara W. Tuchman