Quotes · Skopia

48 quotes

1979

★ 6.9

Speech · Political speech

Read my lips: no new taxes.

George H.W. Bush

1988 Republican convention speech · 1988

★ 5.4

Sermon · Religious literature

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God · 1741

★ 5.3

Sociology

The men, women, and children who compose a society at any time are the unconscious depositaries and transmitters of the mores. They inherited them without knowing it; they are molding them unconsciously; they will transmit them involuntarily. The people cannot make the mores. They are made by them.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways · 1906

★ 5.0

Novel

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News · 1993

★ 4.4

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

Henry L. Ellsworth

1843

★ 4.3

Essay · Sociology

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology · 1881

★ 4.3

Sociology

A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways · 1906

★ 4.3

He said not "Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shall not be travailed, thou shalt not be diseased"; but he said, "Thou shalt not be overcome."

Julian of Norwich

1413

★ 3.9

Novel

May the odds be ever in your favor!

Suzanne Collins

2008

★ 3.8

Look before you leap.

Robert Greene

1590

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Clearly, mistakes were made.

George H.W. Bush

Speech to the American Enterprise Institute, December 3, 1986 · 1986

★ 3.7

Press conference

This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, August 5, 1990 · 1990

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

A line has been drawn in the sand.

George H.W. Bush

1990

★ 3.7

Sermon

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Jonathan Edwards

1834

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

I have spoken of a Thousand Points of Light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. We will work hand in hand, encouraging, sometimes leading, sometimes being led.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush · 1989

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

The biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

George H.W. Bush

1992 State of the Union Address · 1992

★ 3.6

Sermon · Religious literature

A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of heaven and earth?

Jonathan Edwards

The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners · 1734

★ 3.5

Economic literature

The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1898

★ 3.5

Newspaper

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Joseph Alsop

1952

★ 3.5

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