Quotes for All
I’ve been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don’t believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger. Edward Whitacre, Jr.
If I’ve been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that’s the way I find life. Edward Albee
A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he’s been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they’ve done before, or they try to do … Read more
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, \”What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.\” Edmund Burke
Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found \”against the evidence,\” … the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: … Read more
Riposte of \”that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical,\” Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? E. M. Forster
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering… since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party. Fyodor Dostoevsky
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also … Read more
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. Fritz Todt
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man. Frederic Farrar