Edmund Smith quotes

“Priests, altars, victims, swam before my sight.”
-- Edmund Smith

Source : Edmund Smith (1719). “The Works of ...: Containing I. Phaedra and Hippolitus, II. A Poem on Thr Death of Mr. Philips, III. Bodleian Speech, IV Pocochius, To which is Prefix'd”, p.9

#Life Quotes #Sight Quotes #Victim Quotes

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”

“The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.”

“Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.”

Source : Adam Sedgwick (1850). “A Discourse on the Studies of the University of Cambridge”, p.45

“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”

Source : Aeschylus, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1970). “Oresteia”, p.50, Univ of California Press

“American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.”

“Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.”

“If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.”

“Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.”