"I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history."

“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”

“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”

“The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.”

“At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.”

“I don’t think I’m all that conservative.”

“Adventures suck when you're having them.”

“they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.”

Source : William Tyndale (1850). “An Answer to Sir Thomas More's Dialogue: The Supper of the Lord After the True Meaning of John VI. and 1 Cor. XI. And Wm. Tracy's Testament Expounded”, p.191