Ransom Riggs Quotes

I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

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• I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • House
  • Fall
  • See

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nature
  • Price
  • Cheated

• He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Business

• If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Children
  • Book
  • Study

• I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Smart
  • Homework
  • Cheated

• Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Law
  • Century
  • Jungle

• In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Firsts
  • Bird
  • Century

• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Philosophy
  • Sense
  • Common

• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Selfish
  • Cheated

• Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

  

  William Hague
  • Long
  • Term
  • Century

• My singing style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  

  Judy Garland
  • People
  • Trying
  • Style

• For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • People
  • Law
  • States

• Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Children
  • School
  • Home

• Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Vote
  • Cheated

• We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Century
  • Achievements
  • Forbearers

• At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

  

  Ari Shavit
  • Century
  • Jews
  • Victims

• The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Century
  • Empire
  • Exploitation

• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

  

  Juan Goytisolo
  • Opinion
  • Drama
  • Criticism

• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Truth
  • Greek
  • Century

• We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

  

  Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • Future
  • Past
  • Deny

• Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Success
  • Ambiguity
  • Imposter

• We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• During the game, there has to be a moment where you have to set the tone. You have to let them know that you're a physical player.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Game
  • Player

• I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

  

  Ransom Riggs
  • Century
  • Cheated