English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Goldwin Smith Quotes

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Goldwin Smith

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle." His eyes brimming, reflecting the color of beer."Baby," she said, helpless,... Thomas Pynchon
John Ralston Saul quote: "Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy."
Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. John Ralston Saul
Which of us would not have been happy under Alexander's radiant gaze? But Diogenes frantically begged him to move out of the way of the sun. That tub was full of ghosts. Franz Kafka
Ron Chernow quote: "Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds..."
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. Ron Chernow
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing. Mary Oliver
I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly, when I am loosed. Joseph Hall
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and..."
Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul. Michel de Montaigne
Larry Niven quote: "We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get..."
We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes. Larry Niven
Bruce Davison quote: "You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon..."
You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick. Bruce Davison
Maya Rudolph quote: "No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful."
No, no, no. Your accent is so beautiful. Maya Rudolph
Euripides quote: "Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful,..."
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable. Euripides
Will Wright quote: "Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license."
Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license. Will Wright
...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind. David Ricardo
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. David Mamet
James Agate quote: "Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do..."
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever. James Agate