Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Source: Danse Macabre
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
The Crosswicks Journal, The Irrational Season (1977)
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Selective Memory http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_07_06_04td.html (July 6, 2004). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“Seven feet of English ground, or as much more as he may be taller than other men.”
Harold II of England (1022–1066) Anglo-Saxon King of England
Variant translation: He will give him seven feet of English ground, or as much more as he may be taller than other men.
Attributed by the Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241) in his Saga of Harald Hardrade.
1066, when asked by his traitorous brother, Tostig, how much of England he was prepared to give up to the invading King Harald Hardrada of Norway
Attributed
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Love and Death (1975)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
1930s, From the film Triumph of the Will (1935)
Auberon Herbert (1838–1906) British politician
The Contemporary Review
Context: AHow, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed. Rights are not things which grow by using the multiplication table. here are two men. If there are such things as rights, these two men must evidently start with equal rights. How shall you, then, by multiplying one of the two, even a thousand times over, give him larger rights than the other, since each new unit that appears only brings with him his own rights; or how, by multiplying one of the units up to the point of exhausting the powers of the said multiplication table, shall you take from the other the rights with which he started?
Tim Allen (1953) American actor, voiceover artist and comedian
As quoted in Land Your Dream Job : High-Performance Techniques to Get Noticed, Get Hired, and Get Ahead (2007) by John Middleton, Ken Langdon, and Nikki Cartwright
Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
"A Personal Letter, With a Request for a Reply", January 1937