Clisby Clarke Quotes & Sayings

A modest little person, with much to be modest about. — Winston S. Churchill

Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Liberty is not enough. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Be the hero, the example and the perfection that you are. — Robert J. Braathe

Each would treasure going to hell if it would keep the other safe! — Sidney St. James

Disinterested public service has become, just so ... what's the phrase, 'old school.' — Tina Brown

In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world. — Eugene V. Debs

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire? — Thomm Quackenbush

I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended. — Cherie Lunghi

Get your ass ready. She's coming back. — Abbi Glines

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope. — Thomas Watson

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from. — Portia De Rossi

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini. — Aldous Huxley