Hornblower Mutiny Quotes & Sayings

My sister is no fool and she is not tender-hearted," I said. "My sister fights for her home, and takes what risks she must. That is why I put myself before her today - why I would not let you have her. My sister burns, and she does not burn for you. — E.K. Johnston

THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I've missed you," Christopher commented in a tone of mild surprise. "Though I can't decide why. It must be the glare--it bring me back to my childhood."
"You were ever a hellion," Annandale informed him, "and selfish to the bone. When I read Russell's reports of your battlefield heroics, I was certain they had mistaken you for someone else."
Christopher grinned. "If I was heroic, it was purely accidental. I was only trying to save my own skin. — Lisa Kleypas

I am an Indian, so I do yoga. — Zubin Mehta

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true. — Maya Angelou

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity. — Pierre Omidyar

In the end idealism annoyed Bouvard. 'I don't want any more of it: the famous cogito is a bore. The ideas of things are taken for the things themselves. What we barely understand is explained by means of words that we do not understand at all! Substance, extension, force, matter and soul, are all so many abstractions, figments of the imagination. As for God, it is impossible to know how he is, or even if he is! Once he was the cause of wind, thunder, revolutions. Now he is getting smaller. Besides, I don't see what use he is. — Gustave Flaubert

The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War. — Aleister Crowley

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there. — Lance Ito

But oh, to him I loved Who loved me not at all,I owe the little open gate That led thru heaven's wall. — Sara Teasdale

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger. — Jeff Bridges

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't. — Edward T. Hall

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME. — Kanye West