"I hold all idea of regulating the currency to be an absurdity; the very terms of regulating the currency and managing the currency I look upon to be an absurdity; the currency should regulate itself; it must be regulated by the trade and commerce of the world; I would neither allow the Bank of England nor any private banks to have what is called the management of the currency."

-- Richard Cobden

#Ideas Quotes #Looks Quotes #World Quotes

“I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.”
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

Source : FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013
“UNICEF is working for the survival of children worldwide. What can we do to get more Americans committed to the cause?”
“Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?”
“Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264
“In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism”
“There could never be innocence in a world without justice.”
“Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.”

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