Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Postman

For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.

Camille Paglia

If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.

Aldous Huxley

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Aldous Huxley

But every one belongs to every one else

Aldous Huxley

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

Aldous Huxley

The more stitches, the less riches.

Aldous Huxley

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Aldous Huxley

God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.

Aldous Huxley

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Jason Portz

He's always a person that people are trying to pitch around. He's his own worst enemy at times. When he can focus on doing the little things in the game, he's a terrific player. He's been very solid for us and his leadership has been tremendous.

Felipe Noguera

He has a habit of picking a weak enemy and berating them.

Richelle Mead

You've got to take it on faith that the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

Richelle Mead

You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you—which will be soon. Love, D.

William Shenstone

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

William Saroyan

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

Will Durant

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Industry is the enemy of melancholy

Samuel Johnson

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Jason McCartney

I was watching John, I thought he was the strongest. The Gerolsteiner rider... I think he was playing! I just raced with him in Germany where he had the King of the Mountains for a day or two. I know it was touch-and-go and I know his teammate was working hard. We had been out there a long time.

E. B. White

He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany and France).

Werner Klemperer

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

William Joyce

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

Daniel Breaker

I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Helmut Kohl

Everybody should know that Germany will not go it alone: there will be no restless Reich.

James F. Byrnes

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.