"How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted."

-- Horace Walpole

#Laughing Quotes #Use Quotes #Half Quotes

“No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.”
“Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.”
“Then she took out a speculum the size of a milk shake machine. Even Michelle Duggar would have flinched at this thing, but I had never seen one before.”
“When God talks to humans he doesn't want humans to hear his voice.”
“The standard model gives us an accuracy of ten decimal digits, this is an amazing success that has never been achieved before in science.”
“Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.”
“Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.”

You may also like:

Ann Radcliffe
Author
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Writer
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Novelist
Robert Louis Stevenson
Novelist
Robert Walpole
Former Great Britain. Prime Minister.
Thomas Gray
Poet
Walter Scott
Baronet Scott
William Thomas Beckford
Novelist