Socrates Scholasticus Quotes

I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that.

I have the wisdom of one condemned to death:
I own nothing for anything to own me

Every 11 seconds a little girl is being mutilated somewhere in the world, it has nothing to do with religion, culture or tradition but against all rights of humanity its a crime its cruel its unacceptable.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

The first night, a rock, big as two fists.
The second, a rock big as three.
But nary a curse cursed Rudolph Reed.
(Though oaken as man could be.)
The third night, a silvery ring of glass.
Patience arched to endure,
But he looked, and lo! small Mabel's blood
Was staining her gaze so pure.

Well, for me the greatest of all marathons is of course the olympic marathon, but second place is Boston.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I'm very happy to win a second time, I found it to be a very easy race.

In all my years of defending inner-city clients I have never introduced music before as a mitigating circumstance in a murder case. But I do believe it applies in this case. Without the music riling him up, I do not think that this incident would have occurred.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial influence on most other Hindu Revivalist authors of the last two decades.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

The literary world must take a stand [to stop Bloomsbury publishing the book]. This is not about cancel culture. This is about defending literature from fascism. This is about standing up against religious divide, hate speech, islamophobia and false history.