Verdissima Quotes

#1. Then who is it?" said Arthur. "Well," said Ford, "if we're lucky it's just the Vogons come to throw us in to space." "And if we're unlucky?" "If we're unlucky," said Ford grimly, "the captain might be serious in his threat that he's going to read us some of his poetry first ... .

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#2. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock

#3. Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Bill Johnson

#5. We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

Andrew Aydin

#6. Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

Arianna Huffington

#7. He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.

~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia
After the second banana slaughter

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. All knowledge hurts.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Greek govt halts Piraeus port sale

Anonymous

#10. See you either in hell or in communism

Slavoj Zizek