Hamstringing Quotes & Sayings

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. — Thornton Wilder

Carpe Rectum. Seize the hot ass the good Lord has provided. — Valerie Z. Lewis

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure. — Julian Barnes

the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist, others a hypocrite, according to the resources of their vocabulary; — George Eliot

I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined. And now to be one of them! One of the women with the endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch. — Gillian Flynn

Because there's no reason to think Paige had to eat anything. Paige is not a low demon. She's a little girl. A vegetarian. A born humanitarian. A budding Dalai Lama, for chrissake. She only attacked the angel to defend me. That's all.
Besides, she didn't eat him, she just ... gnawed on him a little. — Susan Ee

Wherever I am, it's a really good feeling to have that connection to people. I love to go out to talk to people and be with folks. I don't shy away from it. — Danny DeVito

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it. — Ambrose Bierce

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong. — Jane Austen

The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency. — Alice James

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose. — Edward Gibbon

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day. — Michael Fassbender

No matter what happened, he was Dex and I was Perry and that combination only led to trouble. — Karina Halle

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology. — Douglas Rushkoff

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery. — Charlotte Rampling

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore. — Jerry Hall