Thomas Bulfinch Quotes

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

Thomas Bulfinch

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867

Topics

PowerSocietySmallSometimesLand

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.

Joanna Scott

ArtRealityUnderstandRepresentation

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

John Anderson

TimeEnvironmentalEndDesignYou

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

Joey Adams

FitnessExerciseUsGetFarFact

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

Megan Fox

WomanWonderSheInvisibleGetLame

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt.

John Thune

GovernmentDebtFederal Government

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.

Sue Monk Kidd

LoveFeelInclusionNeedUsAware

I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

Stevie Wonder

TimeReadingThinkPictureCamera

I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

ChefKitchenYouCallCookRunning

In 1982, Israel began an invasion across its northern border, seeking to root out elements of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The Israeli military wreaked destruction all the way up to Beirut and forced the P.L.O. out of Lebanon. It also defeated the Syrian Army and, particularly, the Air Force wherever it engaged them.

Ronen Bergman

OrganizationBorderArmyDefeatedUp

Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

Mary Roach

DayCuriousPeopleMeThinkYou

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Mike Tyson

DressMaskClothesGoSometimesOut

It is quite unsettling looking into someone's eyes, especially when you aren't used to it.

Mike May

EyesLookingSomeoneYouUsedQuite

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