“I will make you shorter by the head.”
Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603) Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until 1603
Response to Parliament (October 1566).
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Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor
Quoted in David Carr, "Been Up, Been Down. Now? Super." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/20carr.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&8dpc&oref=slogin&, New York Times (2008-04-20)
“You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.”
Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist
“There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.”
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) Russian chemist and inventor
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“In order to see the boundaries of the probabilities, need to try impossible.”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
When he said that the ships would pass by land <br class="br">Source: Ahmet Akgündüz - Mehmed's tolerance http://www.ahmetakyol.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9849&Itemid=47
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“The UN’s silence in the face of Trump is the final stone in its own grave.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Radiorama de Occidente. 1480 AM. Guadalajara, Mexico.
“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“I always thought that
I was me — but no,
I was you
and never knew it.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. ”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 2; as translated by James Strachey, p.63
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Notebook entry, January or February 1894, Mark Twain's Notebook, ed. Albert Bigelow Paine (1935), p. 240 http://books.google.com/books?id=DjBVlb7cBSIC&pg=PA240 <br class="br">Variant: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory! <br class="br">Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist