Some Hope, Chapter 9
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
First published in the "Movie Answer Man" column (18 September 2005) http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050918/ANSWERMAN/509180304/1023
“Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.”
Simon Munnery (1967) British comedian
Attention Scum! (2001), Episode One
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Oppression and Liberty (1958), p. 82
Hannibal (-247–-183 BC) military commander of Carthage during the Second Punic War
Spoken as a jest to one of his officers named Gisgo, who had remarked on the numbers of Roman forces against them before the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC), as quoted in A History of Rome (1855), by Henry George Liddell Vol. 1, p. 355
Variant translation: You forget one thing Gisgo, among all their numerous forces, there is not one man called Gisgo.
“One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Shadow
Source: Ender's Shadow
José Saramago book The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Então Jesus voltou lentamente o rosto para ela e disse. Não conheço mulher. Maria segurou-lhe as mãos, Assim temos de começar todos, homens que não conheciam mulher, mulheres que não conheciam homem, um dia o que sabia ensinou, o que não sabia aprendeu.
Source: The Gospel According to Jesus Christ (1991), p. 235
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
