Columnists List Quotes & Sayings

A journalist once asked me what I would like my epitaph to be and I said I think I would like it to be 'He did very little harm'. And that's not easy. Most people seem to me to do a great deal of harm. If I could be remembered as having done very little, that would suit me. — Paul Eddington

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. — Richard Flanagan

By receiving salvation, we receive God's love. — Sunday Adelaja

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly. — Melissa Harris-Perry

That woman of unbreakable nerves who at no moment in her life had been heard to sing. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I see bodies as individual things. — Joni Mitchell

Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck. — Victor LaValle

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism. — Chogyam Trungpa

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore. — Edward Abbey

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation. — Ibn Khaldun

Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world. — William Alexander

I want to be top scorer in the Premier League, top scorer at the World Cup and, within five years, I want to be among the best strikers in the world. Trust me, it will happen. I look around at other players, I see my own ability and I can't see anything that tells me it won't happen, I'm sure people will think 'What is he talking about?' But as I have done before, and as I will do again, I will sit at the other end and laugh at those people when it is all done. — Nicklas Bendtner

But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in [God] but in myself and his other creatures — Augustine Of Hippo

Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions. — Joe Abercrombie

Be yourself. That's it. I got about 45 [billionaires] . They are all different, all unique, and they are all self-made. — Tony Robbins