Fuegian Steamer Quotes & Sayings

If I am asked, What do you propose to substitute for universal suffrage? Practically, What have you to recommend? I answer at once, Nothing. The whole current of thought and feeling, the whole stream of human affairs, is setting with irresistible force in that direction. The old ways of living, many of which were just as bad in their time as any of our devices can be in ours, are breaking down all over Europe, and are floating this way and that like haycocks in a flood. Nor do I see why any wise man should expend much thought or trouble on trying to save their wrecks. The waters are out and no human force can turn them back, but I do not see why as we go with the stream we need sing Hallelujah to the river god. — James Fitzjames Stephen

I hate the phrase "One thing led to another". What kind of lazy writing is that? Isn't it your job as a writer to tell me how that made this happen? "Adolf Hitler was rejected as a young man in his application to an art school. One thing led to anotherand the United States ended up dropping two atomic bombs on the sovereign nation of Japan". — Brian Regan

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe? — Hank Williams Jr.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. — Jean De La Bruyere

Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on. — Christina Sunley

Hope is a lover's staff, — Nicholas Boothman

If you do your best always, over and over again, you will become a master of transformation. Practice makes the master. By doing your best you become a master. Everything you have ever learned, you learned through repetition. You learned to write, to drive, and even to walk by repetition. You are a master of speaking your language because you practiced. Action is what makes the difference. — Miguel Ruiz

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing. — Nick Brandt

There's a lot of books out there about how you lead change in business, but I've certainly not seen any ... on how you do that in public institutions. — Robert M. Gates

Funny, there was a reason that people "built" lives together. Although the choices you made as husband and wife were not bricks, and time was not mortar, you were still constructing something tangible and real. — J.R. Ward

Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and around the world. His love and faith is alive in millions of Americans who volunteer each day in soup kitchens or in schools, or who refused to ignore the suffering of millions they'd never met in far-away places when a tsunami brought unthinkable destruction. His vision and his passion is alive in churches and on campuses when millions stand up against the injustice of discrimination anywhere, or the indifference that leaves too many behind. — John F. Kerry

With a sequel, you always worry for its integrity. — Tim Curry

To a coward, a kitten is a fierce lion. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. — Margaret Atwood