„I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.“
— Marquês de La Fayette, As quoted in a letter by Thomas Clarkson (3 October 1845), published in The Liberty Bell (1846), p. 64
Marquês de La Fayette
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„I have found it! or I have got it!, commonly quoted as Eureka!“
— Archimedes Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer -287 - -212 a.C.
What he exclaimed as he ran naked from his bath, realizing that by measuring the displacement of water an object produced, compared to its weight, he could measure its density (and thus determine the proportion of gold that was used in making a king's crown); as quoted by Vitruvius Pollio in De Architectura, ix.215;
„You can't believe it, you can't conceive it,
And you can't touch me, 'cause I'm untouchable,
And I know you hate it, and you can't take it,
You'll never break me, 'cause I'm unbreakable.“
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Unbreakable
„I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.“
— Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
„I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from somewhere I have never been, and that I have carried this sin as my sin even though I have never committed it; this sin pursues me all my life, which life is undoubtedly not my own even thought I live it, I suffer from it die of it.“
— Imre Kertész Hungarian writer 1929
„I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?“
— Sojourner Truth African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist 1797 - 1883
Context: That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
„Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.“
— Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer 1914 - 2002
„man, i would have peeled off my shirt faster than you can say bubba loves trucks.“
— P.C. Cast American writer 1960
„People say I'm strange that way,
'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate
For the childhood I've never known.“
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
Childhood
„I shall not go out at all
given that my love is here
shall always stay attached to these hearts.
I shall never bid farewell to this place!
But I have to send this body
anyhow from here.“
— Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967
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„I could express my feelings more easily if they could be put into the notes of music, but as the very best concert would not cover my affection for you, dear daddy, I must use the simple words of my heart, to lay before you my utmost gratitude and filial affection“
— Frédéric Chopin Polish composer 1810 - 1849
As quoted in Chopin's Letter.
„I put a lot of mannequins in my room in the past, and I still have mannequins in my room, because I used to be very lonely, painfully lonely. You have no idea. I used to walk the streets looking for people to talk to. I'm talking about the height of one's career…. I would walk up to them, strangers, and say, "will you be my friend?" They'd go, "my god, Michael Jackson!" and that's not what I wanted.“
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
The Michael Jackson Interview: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See (2002)