Walter Besant Quotes

#1. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

Walter Besant

#2. That's brilliant."
"I thought so. But I'm glad you agree. It will make this journey much more pleasant if you are impressed with my brilliance.

Sarah Beth Durst

#3. Learning starts with failure.

Josiah Bancroft

#4. The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.

Walter Besant

#5. Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing ... I don't want to be part of a story where Jews are just victims or bullies - and I'm not saying that's what the Israelis are.

Simon Schama

#6. Trust compared to a valuable stone that has been shattered, cannot be restored to its original form.

Ellen J. Barrier

#7. Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

Walter Besant

#8. If something happens that is highly unusual,
and no explanation is readily available,
isn't "I don't know" the only appropriate response?
How can we justify leaping to the extraordinary
conclusion that an unexplained event
is the work of a god?
Unknown means unknown.

Guy P. Harrison

#9. The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

Ursula Burns

#10. Maura (fucking witch ass bitch Mussolini Al Qaeda darth vader non-entity)

John Green

#11. There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.

Walter Besant

#12. Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.

Walter Besant

#13. As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.

Gore Vidal

#14. Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Walter Besant

#15. When we get down to the very basics of human life we find that we arrive to take a ride on spaceship Earth for several decades and then we leave.

Steven Magee