Change Tack Quotes & Sayings

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know. — Lily Allen

But my focus would have to be on my imminent role, intimately involved with the when and how of death - the grave digger with the forceps. Not — Paul Kalanithi

BEATRICE
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
BENEDICK
Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
BEATRICE
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.
BENEDICK
You take pleasure then in the message?
BEATRICE
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point ... You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.
Exit
BENEDICK
Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that ... — William Shakespeare

I think I would have written more books if I'd had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them. — Clyde Edgerton

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever. — Lee Iacocca

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. — Michelangelo

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan. — John Kennedy Toole

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. — Hunter S. Thompson

If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives. — Dalai Lama XIV

This way I'm 'honored' without anyone having to actually do, concede, admit, sacrifice, or change anything significant. They just tack a few meaningless letters up on a wall, some self-important men say some forgettable words, a few people cheer without knowing why but do so because it's expected, and then everyone decides they're satisfied. That, Peto, is politics."
"That's rubbish!"
"Same thing. — Trish Mercer

Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase — Bill Struth