Eatstr Quotes & Sayings

What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism. — Mark Gevisser

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet. — P.G. Wodehouse

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience. — Charley Pride

My building was constructed in 1896, and the utilities reflect an odd design that has been jerry-rigged further with each renovation. If you want to understand the wiring and plumbing in my building, you have to understand its history, how it was renovated for each new generation of scientists. My head has a long history also, and that history explains complicated nerves like the trigeminal and the facial. — Neil Shubin

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all. — Woody Allen

And admitting that you can't fix yourself - that only God can - is the first step to staying fixed. — Stephen Arterburn

The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale. — Jacky Ickx

As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the decisions ever made in them. I tend not to read them for pleasure. It's not unlike carefully scrutinizing the map when one has already reached the destination. — Scott Lynch

A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate. — Iain Duncan Smith