Penned Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as… — Chief Joseph
A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All… — Gabor Mate
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson,… — Abraham Lincoln
On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species… — Luis Marden
Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and… — Jeffery Deaver
The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear… — Chris Hedges
A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen. — Mo Yan
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark… — Joe
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. — Ernst Mach
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly… — Claude McKay
I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love… — Dorothea Benton Frank
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a… — Ben Jonson
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That… — Gabriel Heatter
Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and… — Daisaku Ikeda
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. — Chief Joseph
People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it. — Jeannette Walls
It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger until I spotted Elodin's name, then… — Patrick Rothfuss

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