Azlinn Quotes & Sayings

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No. — Harold Wilson

Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world. — Laurent Binet

Saw me. And it seemed like he was going to do the right thing. But then slowly, evenly, he shook his head. "Your father is welcome to stay on and help run the vineyard. He knows that we would love to have him. He knows that was our preference." I stared at him in disbelief. "Wow, just when I thought you might understand. — Laura Dave

Sometimes, I thought pity was the most heartless thing in the world. All it did was make people feel superior to you, happy, safe, and smug in the knowledge that someone had it worse than they did. — Jennifer Estep

When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco. — Noah Hawley

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well? — Cyril Connolly

I find it so strange that I throw people off-center. — Ving Rhames

Did you ever meet a mother that complained that her child phoned her too often? Me neither. — Maureen Lipman

I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. — Henry David Thoreau

Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath — Kameron Hurley

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony. — Gene Wilder

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat. — Alberto Giacometti