Hinnat Quotes & Sayings

I most enjoyed doing 'Whites,' a show BBC2 cancelled after one series. It had some beautiful, witty, charming scripts and was one of the most positive ensemble pieces I've done. I thought the end result was really special. I'm still confused about why it didn't last longer. — Darren Boyd

What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'? — Mahatma Gandhi

The ultimate act of cowardice is the fat-headed wrestling guy sitting behind the frail kid in math class, clipping him on the ear, saying: 'What are you going to do about that, faggot?' That is cowardice. When the bullets start flying past that jock's saucer-shaped ears, that's not cowardice. That's payback. — Doug Stanhope

But that could not have been the main cause of the carnage, because in subsequent centuries the technology kept getting deadlier while the death toll came back to earth. Luard singles out religious passion as the cause: It was above all the extension of warfare to civilians, who (especially if they worshipped the wrong god) were frequently regarded as expendable, which now increased the brutality of war and the level of casualties. Appalling bloodshed could be attributed to divine wrath. The duke of Alva had the entire male population of Naarden killed after its capture (1572), regarding this as a judgement of God for their hard-necked obstinacy in resisting; just as Cromwell later, having allowed his troops to sack Drogheda with appalling bloodshed (1649), declared that this was a "righteous judgement of God." Thus by a cruel paradox those who fought in the name of their faith were often less likely than any to show humanity to their opponents in war. — Steven Pinker

The stubborn stance of some European governments on the refugee question is a reprisal less aimed at Angela Merkel or (Vice Chancellor) Sigmar Gabriel than at certain people on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin. — Martin Schulz

I just love playing in major championships. — Inbee Park

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional. — Arvind Gupta

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more. — Thomas Raymond Kelly

I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. — Yaya DaCosta

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else. — Samuel Foote

Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty. — Thomas Jefferson

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. — Samuel Richardson

Plopbottle closed his eyes. Suddenly he wasn't a low-grade technician any more, he was Johnny Marino in Disco Night Fever. Confident, sophisticated, chic, and above all, not a goblin. He pointed down to the floor and up to the ceiling, he twirled his jacket round his head and spun on his heels. He hustled, he shimmied, he mash potatoed, he did the boogaloo. — Indigo Lane