Joseph Hume Quotes
Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume
Quotes to Explore
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
Ernie Pyle
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
William Shakespeare
It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else.
Nancy Horan
Any time you try to be edgy just for the sake of being edgy, that's the worst way.
Billy Lawrence
To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.
Edwin S. Shneidman
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
Oscar Wilde