“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”
Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”
Alastair Reynolds book On the Steel Breeze
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
"Jolie shocked by Madonna attacks" Reuters report, via CNN.com (8 January 2007) http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/08/jolie.madonna.reut/index.html
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Song lyrics, Paul Simon (1972)
Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist
"A View from the Patriotic Left" http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F01E41CB-A584-4597-B9BE-86BBD9B3F7A1, Boston Globe (2002-09-09)]: On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan <br class="br">2000s, 2002
“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Was written in a slightly different way by Leo Longanesi in Italian, above form has been attributed to Kafka without evidence. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: One Idiot Is One Idiot. Two Idiots Are Two Idiots. Ten Thousand Idiots Are a Political Party, Quote Investigator, 2021-10-08 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/08/idiots/,
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) Polish-American Conservative Judaism Rabbi
"No Religion is an Island", p. 264
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
“The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.”
Sir Henry Hobart, 1st Baronet (1554–1625) English politician
Colt v. Glover (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 149.
Norodom Sihanouk (1922–2012) Cambodian King
Said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 113.
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