Buttonholed Quotes & Sayings

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible ... — Mark Twain

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so. — C.S. Lewis

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life. — Gerald May

I've always been concerned about global warming. It seemed to me like working in nuclear power was a logical way to do something to help the environment. — Leslie Dewan

Willie went out and buttonholed folks on the street and tried to explain things to them. You could see Willie standing on a street corner, sweating through his seersucker suit, with his hair down in his eyes, holding an old envelope in one hand and a pencil in the other, working out figures to explain what he was squawking about, but folks don't listen to you when your voice is low and patient and you stop them in the hot sun and make them do arithmetic. — Robert Penn Warren

Fear-addled minds swarm around conspiracies like flies around something foul. — Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

He's not dead. But I have a feeling he's bored. That's worse. — Agatha Christie

We can never get to the Promised Land, for if we did, it would not longer be the Promised Land. — Benjamin Lichtenberg

A smile is the most affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I am thankful that to be attuned to the needs of another attunes us to the world, and that if I stay attuned only to my needs I will always be a stranger to the world. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've heard it said that if you know English, Spanish, Italian, and I think it's French, you can go just about anywhere in this world ... except for China where they have all those derelicts. — Mike Shannon

warned them of getting buttonholed in a job that stopped them from exploring all the directions that life presented — Dan John

Two hundred metres away from the cafe in Colaba police station, the duty inspector heard the rounds tumble and fizz, wondering if they were from an AK-47. ...The inspector buttonholed two constables armed with standard issue .303 bolt-action rifles. They were so antiquated that they were no longer in production in India...At most city police stations these and bamboo lathis were the only weapons available. — Cathy Scott-Clark

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone. — Seinabo Sey

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca The Younger

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places. — Liev Schreiber