Diametrical Pitch Quotes & Sayings

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men. — Stefan Zweig

No. Has a dead man any use for money? Is it possible for a dead man to have money? What world does a dead man belong to? 'Tother world. What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse's? Can a corpse own it, want it, spend it, claim it, miss it? Don't try to go confounding the rights and wrongs of things in that way. But it's worthy of the sneaking spirit that robs a live man. — Charles Dickens

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality. — Louise Penny

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress. — Luise Rainer

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one. — Joseph Campbell

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain. — Laurence Fishburne

On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead. — Luis Suarez

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want. — Amy Tan

Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce. — Harper Lee

And visitors say: how does such a big city exist? What keeps it going? Since it's got a river you can chew, where does the drinking water come from? What is, in fact, the basis of its civic economy? How come it, against all probability, works?
Actually, visitors don't often say this. They usually say things like, Which way to the, you know, the ... er ... you know, the young ladies, right? — Terry Pratchett