Donald Strachey Quotes & Sayings

I don't call it "Life Insurance," I call it "Love Insurance." We buy it because we want to leave a legacy for those we love. — Farshad Asl

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. — Henry Kissinger

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Our hearts, it seems, can be scraped only so gaunt before they crack into an acre of arid indifference. — Michael Yankoski

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. — Erica Jong

The civilisation of the West has in it the spirit of the machine which must move; and to that blind movement human lives are offered as fuel, keeping up the steam-power. It represents the active aspect of inertia which has the appearance of freedom, but not its truth, and therefore gives rise to slavery both within its boundaries and outside. — Rabindranath Tagore

I know Quebecers don't want to relive old battles; they prefer to build for the future. — Kim Campbell

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. — Robert Penn Warren

Let us speak of this in purely human terms. Oh! how pitiable a person who has never felt the loving urge to sacrifice everything for love, who has therefore been unable to do so! — Soren Kierkegaard

Seek far from noise and day some western cave, Where woods and streams with soft and pausing winds A lulling murmur weave? - [_30 Ianthe] doth not sleep The dreamless sleep of death:-
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (2011-03-24). The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Complete (Kindle Locations 317-319). Kindle Edition. — Percy Bysshe Shelley