"and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty."

-- Charles Dickens

#Children Quotes #Herds Quotes #Conducting Quotes

“A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.”
“All the fatt's in the fire.”

Source : John Marston (1856). “The Works of John Marston”, p.219
“By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except weddings, funerals or Ascot. Hats had been in competition with hair, and hair had won. Thirty years before that, Brits of all classes and ages wore hats all the time.”
“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”

Source : Larry Moss (2004). “The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor”, Bantam
“Humans are addicted to the hope for a final reckoning, but intellectual humility requires that we resist the temptation to assume that tools of the kind we now have are in principle sufficient to understand the universe as a whole.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False”, p.10, Oxford University Press
“Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.”
“The deepest rivers make least din.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 707-10, Aurora (1604), Song, 1922.
“Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.”

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