Untilled Field Quotes

#1. Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,
a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. But the history of independent India has remained a field mostly untilled. If history is 'formally constituted knowledge of the past', then for the period since 1947 this knowledge practically does not exist.

Ramachandra Guha

#3. I look upon Virginia as a rib taken from Britain's side ... While they both proceed as living under the marriage-compact, this Eve might thrive so long as her Adam flourishes. Whatever serpent shall tempt her to go astray etc [will only cause] her husband to rule more strictly over her.

Alexander Spotswood

#4. Country schooling was little more than a cane-wacking interlude in which boys picked up facts like bruises and the girls scarcely counted at all ...

Laurie Lee

#5. Think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

N. T. Wright

#6. If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Nagarjuna

#7. When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

George Bernard Shaw

#8. We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

Milton Berle

#9. I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

Dave Pelzer