Barney Snaith Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? — Ron Fournier

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it — Margaret Atwood

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An'e's generally shammin' when'e's dead. — Rudyard Kipling

The truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin and always, always worn make-up. — Judy Parfitt

That's the great truth of failed relationships, the narrative and the absence of narrative. Each time you tell the story, it makes less sense, the smooth arcs disintegrate into a series of jagged peaks. As you stand on one of its precipices, you can no longer see the way forward. How did you traverse from one point to another? How did you make the journey safely? — Stephanie Reents

Good-evening, Miss Stirling.
Nothing could be more commonplace and conventional.
Any one might have said it. But Barney Snaith had a way of saying things that gave them poignancy. When he said good-evening you felt that it was a good evening and it was partly his doing that it was. Also, you felt that some of the credit was yours. — L.M. Montgomery

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness. — L.M. Montgomery

True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice . — Sathya Sai Baba