Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Simone Weil

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Richard Branson

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

Remy de Gourmont

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

Remy de Gourmont

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

Robert A. Heinlein

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Robert A. Heinlein

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

Robert A. Heinlein

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Samuel Alito

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

George W. Bush

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

Franz Boas

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

Jeanette Winterson

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

Jeannette Rankin

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

George Will

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Kate Adie

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

Benjamin Franklin

A modern Wit is one of David's Fools.