Quotes About The Donner Party

#1. Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream."
Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

Stephen Baxter

#2. Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.

Louise Penny

#3. The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.

Henry Rollins

#4. Pulling out onto the highway I noticed a stone pillar commemorating the Donner Party. They were a true testament to the American spirit, push forward at all costs and eat the dead when necessary. Wasn't that the American dream in a nutshell.

Josh Stallings

#5. To say we know a person is to write that person off.

Yiyun Li

#6. Did not the Donner-Reed Party, after all, eat its own dead to reach Sacramento?

Joan Didion

#7. Readers really want to come back to an author; they do not want a one-book wonder. That is all very well, but to be career author, you have to be prepared to write one really good book and then write another really good book and keep feeding your readers. You build your audience over a long time.

Stephanie Laurens

#8. I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

Emily Blunt

#9. If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

J.M. Coetzee

#10. The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault."

Daniel Simon

#11. If the food supply runs out, try trapping or hunting animals. For most people, this won't be easy. If you can't catch any animals, it's time to throw a Donner party.

Andrew Shaffer

#12. Hate knows that love is the cure.

Stevie Wonder

#13. To grow old is to lose everything.

Donald Hall

#14. Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

Alain De Botton

#15. People have different personalities when they're drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.

Mick Jagger

#16. Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

Bo Burnham

#17. I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

Norman Granz

#18. We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

Daniel Kahneman

#19. The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. protect us from small-minded men with too much power.

Brandon Sanderson