Rasselas Prince Quotes

#1. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

#2. You can't make up for something you lost.

Troy Dumais

#3. Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought.

James Allen

#4. You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.

Karl Pilkington

#5. None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

Swami Vivekananda

#6. I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

William Golding

#7. Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.

Jillian Michaels

#8. With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.

Dana Gould

#10. We're gods, not saints. Everyone lies. Everyone cheats. Everyone scores off everyone else.

Joanne Harris

#11. Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)

Edward W. Said

#12. grocery lists. That was back when I thought my

Emily Giffin

#13. I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.

Sarah Gavron