“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
“My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was” — Paul Kemprecos Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I would have been an essayist in the 18th century. Maybe I'd have had one gag in the piece, but essentially I'd… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
If you lived in 18th-century England, you probably lived in a village, worked on the land, and your greatest fears were probably… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
“There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
“The Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of us, by… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
“why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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