Compatriot Def Quotes & Sayings

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same. — Vince Lombardi

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Well," the voice said, seemingly oblivious, "one thing that does happen when you live a long time is that you start to realise the essential futility of so much that we do, especially when you see the same patterns of behaviour repeated by succeeding generations and across different species. You see the same dreams, the same hopes, the same ambitions and aspirations, reiterated, and the same actions, the same courses and tactics and strategies, regurgitated, to the same predictable and often lamentable effects, and you start to think, So? Does it really matter? Why really are you bothering with all this? Are these not just further doomed, asinine ways of attempting to fill your vacuous, pointless existence, wedged slivered as it is between the boundless infinitudes of dark oblivion book-ending its utter triviality?" "Uh-huh, — Iain M. Banks

Act first, explain later. — Dan Brown

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties. — Fran Lebowitz

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer. — John Sculley

Whatever it was it made me want to grab Frieda, throw her over my shoulder, and take her home, like some big ape. I wanted to unwrap her like a present and claim my prize - Tate. — Christina Lee

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors. — Ibn Khaldun

He smiled then, and I felt that smile like a vibration moving through me, the way you might feel if you walked through a ghost or it walked through you. — Therese Anne Fowler

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. — William Hazlitt

I never fell in love with her so I guess the part of the brain that controls love doesn't respond to being called a dick.'
'For your sake, I'm hoping no part of your brain responds to being called a dick.'
'Fair point. — Cath Crowley

I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer. — Zoe Sugg

Self-education only produces expressions of self. — Robert Henri

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you. — Teresa Of Avila

Hyperbole is an excellent red flag on the route to real wisdom. — Caroline Webb