British Vernacular Quotes & Sayings

You can do anything you want. You are bound by nothing. — Robin Williams

Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the people for a long time through the loop and then when I see something interested then I shoot. I think that I have become very sensitive to these things. — Pirjo Honkasalo

Usually we regard as meaningful that which can be expressed, and as meaningless that which cannot be expressed. Yet, the equation of the meaningful and the expressible ignores a vast realm of human experience, and is refuted by our sense of the ineffable which is an awareness of an allusiveness to meaning without the ability to express it. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism. — Oscar Wilde

The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams

I love her (Lucifer), with all my heart. She said that she would give me greatness, status, placement above the others. — Lupe Fiasco

Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree. — Thomas Jefferson