Goffard Muir Quotes & Sayings

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me. — Shunroku Hata

You may even have Jews in your midst who did not learn their way of life from us, and did not inherit it from a Jewish forebear. We may have authentic gentiles in our midst: these single protests are of no account; they are extreme and irrelevant variations. — Maurice Samuel

No'm he aint ill. Not unless laziness is a sickness. If it is, I'd say he's close to dying tomorrow. — Morgan Llywelyn

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you. — Alan Snow

Success is 99 percent failure

— Soichiro Honda

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I was not afraid of the words of the violent, but of the silence of the honest. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Wrath is one of the seven deadly sins," she remarked, turning away from him to gaze out the window, trying to alleviate the burning sensation in her middle.
He laughed bitterly. "Remarkably, I have all seven; don't bother counting. Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, lust."
She lifted an eyebrow but did not turn around. "Somehow, I doubt that."
"I don't expect you to understand. You're only a magnet for mishap, while I am a magnet for sin. — Sylvain Reynard

Your voice is like a very serious instrument that you have to tame if you want to be an amazing singer - Marvin Gaye or Michael Jackson. — Theophilus London

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles. — Marquis De Sade

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun. — Gabrielle Reece

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents. — Geraldine Ferraro

If you lose your temper you will be found by trouble. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken. — Frank Herbert