Martin Bucer/early Years 1491-1523

Famous quotes containing the words martin, early and/or years:

    “When I walked in there and I saw you, I realized I fought this war for a reason.”
    —Earl MacRauch, U.S. screenwriter, Mardik Martin, and Martin Scorsese. Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli)

    “To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candour never waited to be asked for its opinion.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “The real stumbling-block of totalitarian rĂ©gimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men’s inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)