Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
Shakespeare - King Lear Quotes, Famous King Lear Quotations
O,
sir! You are old;
Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine. King Lear, 2. 4
O,
reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's. King Lear, 2. 4
Let
not women's weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man's cheeks! King Lear, 2. 4
I
will do such things,--
What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be
The terrors of the earth. King Lear, 2. 4
No,
I'll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,
Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad! King Lear, 2. 4
Blow,
winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man! King Lear, 3. 2
Rumble
thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. King Lear, 3. 2
A
poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. King Lear, 3. 2
There
was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. King Lear, 3. 2
No,
I will be a pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. King Lear, 3. 2