“The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;”
Guillaume Thomas Raynal
“The difference between a rich man and a poor man, is this - the former eats hen when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“There are hardliners in the PQ, the true believers, the ones who had (former PQ leader Bernard) Landry's head and who tried to get the head of (incoming) governor-general Michaelle Jean. They are intolerant,”
Pierre Pettigrew
“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.”
Oswald Spengler
“I'm a former Marine, ... I serve on the Armed Services Committee. No bill that I have seen, even the one that I introduced that went even farther than this, had anything to do with doing any harm to tactical intelligence in regards to that war fighter in the field.”
Pat Roberts
“The suspect is allegedly the former boyfriend of one of the victims.”
CmdrJames Tolbert
“I feel sad to see our former president picture in handcuffs but happy to know that no one is above the law.”
Jimmy Walker