Quotes for All
Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.’ Conall laughed. ‘Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you’ll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission. Gail Carriger
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not. Euripides
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents’ care. Euripides
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence. Eugene V. Debs
The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and know when I go back to the front line that the war will sink down, be drowned utterly in the great home-coming tide, know that it will then be past … Read more
In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century could say without exaggeration, Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years. Asked how he had done all this in the six or … Read more
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles. Emma Lazarus
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Emma Lazarus
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Emma Lazarus
I shouldn’t care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, \”That’s the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; … Read more