Connaught Rangers Quotes & Sayings

From Martin Eden on submitting manuscripts: There was no human editor at the other end, but a mere cunning arrangement of cogs that changed the manuscript from one envelope to another and stuck on the stamps. It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and, with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing-gum or a tablet of chocolate. It depended upon which slot one dropped the penny in, whether he got chocolate or gum. And so with the editorial machine. One slot brought checks and the other brought rejection slips. So far he had found only the latter slot. — Jack London

Go away common sense, you don't live here anymore, hadn't you heard? — Penelope Fletcher

The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram. — Alexa Chung

The most essential point is lowliness. — Francois Fenelon

I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Don't go to war no more. Steady peace because peace is all we need. — Katherine Jackson

You're lucky to have such great friends," Joey said quietly. "Luck has nothing to do with it, dearie. We decided to become friends and to stay friends, through thick and thin, warts and all. — Barbara J. Zitwer

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. — Steven Spielberg

Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately to realize that Americans are definitely believing in and planning for the future, despite the fact that they elected Ronald Reagan twice. — Roseanne Barr

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless. — Jerome Frank

No dark sarcasm, in the classroom. — Roger Waters

linguist called Alla who advised us, among other things, to treat our more stupid students with sympathy, "as if they had cancer." While — Elif Batuman

The baseball fights, you don't ever see the squaring off like you do in hockey, and in some instances, that's where baseball fights can be potentially more dangerous because you've got guys running all over the place and people throwing punches at you that you don't even see half the time. — Tom Glavine