Quotes About Fourteenth

Silence, silence.' All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty

Together, they wanted to return the Middle East to the fourteenth century, into a golden age ruled by Islamic law.

Our president regularly speaks in phrases appropriate to the fourteenth century, and no one seems inclined to find out what words like "God" and "crusade" and "wonder-working power" mean to him.

Very soon after the Fourteenth Amendment became law, the Supreme Court began to demolish it as a protection for blacks, and to develop it as a protection for corporations.

Allen Walker…since the Fourteenth revealed that he was the pianist, I've dreamt about him. That night…I still…wonder…why didn't I kill him. Was it chance? Or fate? The dream fades then…and I never find out.

In the fourteenth century, Arabs like IB had headed for the Sultanate of Delhi, drawn by its immense wealth. In the twentieth, however, the demographic tide had turned: the Gulf is now as much Indian as Arab.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.

It was easy to demonize a phenomenon outside its cultural context. Were they really as backward, I asked Tim, as stories seemed to indicate? 'On the contrary,' he said. 'They're the finest minds of the fourteenth century.

The Pestilence recurred at intervals throughout the fourteenth century, in 1361, 1369, 1375 and 1390, at times when the country was already under the stress of the French War. Cities were emptied of population, the countryside was desolate. Life did not begin to return to normal until about the time of Chaucer's death in 1400.