Etteridge Community Quotes & Sayings

Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed?
Look, he says: once you have exhausted the process of negotiation and compromise, one you have fixed on the destruction of an enemy, that destruction must be swift and it must be perfect. Before you even glance in his direction, you should have his name on a warrant, the ports blocked, his wife and friends bought, his heir under your protection, his money in your strong room and his dog running to your whistle. Before he wakes in the morning, you should have the axe in your hand. — Hilary Mantel

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces. — Squarepusher

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. — Jonathan Winters

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything. — Liz Phair

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature? — Ralph Waldo Emerson