literature

"Grace under pressure."

"I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably…"

"The age demanded that we danceAnd jammed us into iron pants.And in the end the age was handedThe sort of shit that it demanded."

"When the summer came you were not around,Now the summer's gone and love cannot be found,Where were you when I needed you last winter, my love?"

"Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end."

"One can no more pray too much than love too much."

"(Carmine Crocco) In such a crowd, so numerous and composed of such heterogeneous elements, it might have appeared almost absurd to look for discipline; but perfect discipline there was, for, whatever …"

"O let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations."

"And so the game continues. The logical end is a régime in which every opposition party and newspaper is suppressed and every dissentient of any importance is in jail. Of course, such a régime will be …"

"Martin's soul grew very very glad. He crossed himself put on his spectacles, and began reading the Gospel just where it had opened; and at the top of the page he read: I was an hungered, and ye gave m…"

"Days of absence, sad and dreary,Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—Days of absence, I am weary: She I love is far away."

"Testing is not confined to the educational system. Volunteers for the United States military services must obtain passing scores on a test of general mental competence, the Armed Forces Qualifying Tes…"

""It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and invio…"

"On a day — alack the day! —Love, whose month is ever May,Spied a blossom passing fairPlaying in the wanton air"

"Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without an orator."

"The leaders we celebrate are the leaders we learn from. In other words, appearing to be a good leader rather than actually being one is the path to fame and promotion today."

"Historians are really great at predicting the past. But the future is for prophets, and the track records of most prophets is dismal."

"History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction betwe…"

"As a man with a great many ideas who knew very little economics. He knew nothing but Marshallian economics; he was completely unaware of what was going on elsewhere; he even knew very little about nin…"

"A man is judged by his deeds, not by his words."