Robert P. George (1955) American legal scholar
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/949813370651336707 (6 January 2018) <br class="br">2018
Robert P. George (1955) American legal scholar
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/949813370651336707 (6 January 2018) <br class="br">2018
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
“Pull the string and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lord, Increase Our Faith, Ensign, Nov. 1987, 52–53.
François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 240.
“…Dammit, where the hell are these guys? They're nowhere to be found.”
Markiplier (1989) American YouTuber and Internet personality
Video game commentary, Calm Time (November 23, 2013)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Act iii, scene 4
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), Envoi
Variant: Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Context: What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.
Robert Ley (1890–1945) Nazi politician
Speech given on November 3, 1936. Quoted in Wir alle helfen dem Führer "Schicksal — ich glaube!" (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1937), pages 103-114