Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

I didn't even know what the feeling was, really, just that there was a lot of it.

John Green

I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his voice. I liked that he took existentially-fraught free throws.

John Green

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

John Green

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too.

John Green

Grateful to be a little boat, full of water, still floating.

John Green

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

Caroline Rhea

My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.

Muriel Rukeyser

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

Karl Marx

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Karl Marx

Democracy is the road to socialism.

P. J. O'Rourke

What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

P. G. Wodehouse

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

Matt Groening

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

Paul Auster

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

Patrick Henry

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Natalia Kills

I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.

Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Julian Barnes

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

Mary McCarthy

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Mark Twain

It's so damned humiliating.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The new European Soviet.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy.

Miguel de Unamuno

The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Prescott Bush

Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

Paul Ricoeur

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Leon Trotsky

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!

Larry Wall

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Kingsley Amis

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

Omar N. Bradley

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.