Dennis Green Quotes

Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

Dennis Green

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• Taste
• Deceived
• Preference
• Rations

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• Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Today
  • Science

• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• I don't mind a bikini bottom.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Mind
  • Bottom
  • Bikini

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Take
  • Seriously

• Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Democracy
  • Laws
  • Elections

• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Age
  • Earth

• I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Government
  • Market
  • Regulation

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Today

• Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Cool

• The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Brain

• The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven

• Good wine needs no bush,And perhaps products that people really want need nohard-sell or soft-sell TV push.Why not?Look at pot.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Spring

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Depression

• Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton

• I get really excited about jewelry.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Jewelry

• What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Madness
  • Delusion
  • Seized

• As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Professional

• Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

  

  Chrystia Freeland
  • Great
  • America
  • Age

• I laughed on the way home, and I laughed again for sheer satisfaction when we reached the garden and drove between the quiet trees to the pretty old house; for when I went into the library, with its four windows open to the moonlight and the scent, and looked round at the familiar bookshelves, and could hear no sounds but sounds of peace, and knew that here I might read or dream or idle exactly as I chose with never a creature to disturb me, how grateful I felt to the kindly Fate that has brought me here and given me a heart to understand my own blessedness, and rescued me from a life like that I had just seen -- a life spent with the odours of other people's dinners in one's nostrils, and the noise of their wrangling servants in one's years, and parties and tattle for all amusement.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dream
  • Library
  • Satisfaction

• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  

  Dennis Green
  • Slavery
  • Taste
  • Deceived