Dannatt Coat Quotes & Sayings

This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity - that of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself - and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life! — Leo Tolstoy

Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns — Groucho Marx

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists. — Daniel Ek

Flung is too harsh a word for the rush of the world. Blown is more like it, but blown by a generous, unending breath. — Annie Dillard

Sacrificing who we are for the sake of what other people think just isn't worth it. — Brene Brown

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks. — Carter Burwell

It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests and talents pertinent to the court's role. Otherwise the sound principle of substantial deference to a president's choice of judicial nominees will dissolve into a rationalization for senatorial abdication of the duty to hold presidents to some standards of seriousness that will prevent them from reducing the Supreme Court to a private plaything useful for fulfilling whims on behalf of friends. — George Will

If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you. — Frank Bruno

Self-justification is a treacherous servant. — Wellington Mara

You feel something you haven't for years: it's to do with university parties with bathtubs of alcohol and the smell of hamburgers on fingers and beer in a kiss. You should have been disgusted by all that but you weren't. You'd be wet so quick; to get their clothes off, to have their weight upon you, to be rammed against a wall with your leg curled up. — Nikki Gemmell

that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying — Emmuska Orczy

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods. — Benjamin Graham