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“When faced by artillery the Vendéens adopted an unorthodox but successful tactic. The officers would fix their eyes on the enemy cannon and as the matches were lit would cry out ‘ventre a terre’ on which order the men would throw themselves flat on the ground, then on the call ‘portez vos armes’ they would leap up and with the shout ‘en avant’ would charge the guns. By racing forwards and throwing themselves flat between rounds they would eventually attack and overpower the gunners.”
― Rob Harper, Fighting the French Revolution: The Great Vendée Rising of 1793

“Io sono io, e me ne vanto; non voglio niente dalle altre e per le altre. Io valgo molto più di loro. Riconosco che posso non sembrare buona, dato il mio carattere fiero, franco, libero, che mi fa essere talvolta cruda e dura. C’è chi mi detesta; ma non m’importa. Non ci tengo a piacere a tutti.”
― Claudio Rendina, Cardinali e cortigiane (eNewton Saggistica Vol. 30)

“„Ei ole nii halba raamatut, mis midagi head ei sisaldaks,“, ütles bakalaureus.
„Selles pole kahtlust,“ vastas don Quijote. „Aga tihtipeale juhtub, et need, kes on teenitult võtnud ja omandanud suure kuulsuse oma kirjutustega, kaotavad selle täiesti või igatahes väheneb see mõnel määral, kui nad need trükki annavad.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Aventuras del Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

“A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“There is no robber worse than a bad book.”
― Italian Proverb

“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.”
― Piero Chiara, I giovedì della signora Giulia

“Hume confessed to having philosophized for fame, as Michelangelo confessed to having painted for money.”
― Brand Blanshard, Nature of Thought

“He’s very popular and brilliant and a great figure in society; but he’s a great deal abroad, and he’s been a journalist.’
‘Well,’ said Father Brown, ‘that’s not a crime. At least not always.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Ci sorridiamo. Ci sorridiamo un sacco e a lungo. È una fortuna che siamo da soli. Gli innamorati hanno bisogno di privacy per molte più ragioni di quanto si creda. Il sesso non è la più sconcia delle cose che non vanno fatte in pubblico. Ci sono gli sguardi e i sorrisi, le parole in codice, i giochi, le carezze a tempo perso: tutta roba che, a vederla da fuori, ottiene l’unico e immancabile risultato di farti sembrare un cretino. Gli innamorati hanno bisogno di stare soli per guardarsi come stiamo facendo in questo esatto momento io e il commissario e potersi concedere di essere ridicoli senza che nessuno gli rompa i coglioni.”
― Alice Basso, La scrittrice del mistero

“He looked at the human ant hill of growingly ordered activity outside and felt a shrinking helplessness. This was the true Juggernaut, this marshalling of men and skills in stubborn determination and equally stubborn disregard of human life. This was Juggernaut, the Crushing, Irresistible Force, not the human being with the breathy voice on the telephone.”
― Al Hine (Author)

“Out here, she was reduced to a mere observer, a transient entity skirting the edges of infinity. The sensation of insignificance clung to her like a second skin. Her thoughts, grappling with the paradox of her significance.”
― Ron Jenkins, The Great Frontier: In the Beginning

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“- Įsidėmėk, dukrele, istoriją rašo...
- Nugalėtojai?
- Ne. Istoriją rašo tie, kurie turi plunksną ir popieriaus. Ir dar noro.”
― Gintautas K. Ivanickas, Tamsa ryja tamsą

“Time is not money, but a sacred free gift. Priceless.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“He who defends everything, defends nothing.”
― Frederick the Great

“The difference between post-communist China, post-communist Central Europe and post-communist Russia closely tracks the distinction between three styles or strategies of development: namely, imitating the means (or borrowing), imitating the ends (or converting), and imitating the appearances (or simulating).”
― Stephen Holmes, The Light that Failed: A Reckoning

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“And despite all this we are a great people, we South Africans. We are a great people, and we are good people: kind, generous, passionate, fun-loving, open, talented, creative, driven, resilient, people who work hard in the week and on weekends love nothing more than to meet with our friends and enjoy their company. History has battered our country time and time again, and still we endure.”
― Siya Kolisi, Rise: The Brand New Autobiography