As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich. Angus Deaton Read Quote
When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players. Dimitar Berbatov Read Quote
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection. Samuel Richardson Read Quote
I stand before you as a writer without any ground of being out of which to write: really blown about from country to country, culture to culture till I feel – till I am – nothing. As it happens, I like it that way. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Read Quote
I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know. Rebecca Stead Read Quote
I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can’t have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done. Alice Paul Read Quote
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind. Stephen Hawking Read Quote
Mainstream pop is a bit more introspective and emotional now, like how Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ is everyone’s favorite song, and it’s so heartbreaking. Romy Madley Croft Read Quote
