Shaky Foundation Quotes

#1. Once we were young, now we are adult.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. A friend of mankind with shaky moral foundation is a cannibal of mankind, to say nothing of his vainglory; insult the vainglory of one of these numberless friends of mankind, and he is ready at once to set fire to the four corners of the world out of petty vengence

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#3. The tannoy is crackling but I can only hear heavy breathing and snuffling.
...
Uh-oh, the tannoy is crackling again.
Sorry about that, ladies and gentlemen, I momentarily lost hold of my pie.

Louise Rennison

#4. Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

William Shakespeare

#5. So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

Albert Camus

#6. If you're not interested in the thing, and if you're just in it for the money, then you're not really going to have a sense of achievement.

Michael Lewis

#7. The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

#8. It comes as a great shock ... to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance ... has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you.

James Baldwin