Doctnaire Quotes & Sayings

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity. — Sebastian Barry

The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world. — George Orwell

The vast world rainless, one may bid adieu
To charity and penance. — Thiruvalluvar

There was something intoxicating in the anonymity of it all. — Jennifer E. Smith

I'm not saying I was scared. Okay, I was scared. He had an MP5. I had a Nikon. — Joel C. Rosenberg

I'm married to an American, so I guess that has changed my perspective on the subjects I can write about. — Laurie Graham

I am primarily concerned with the condition of man. — Jack Levine

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz. — Thierry Henry