Housemartins People Quotes & Sayings

Oh, sure," Gansey said, still cold and annoyed. "God forbid young men display their principles with futile but public protests when they could be skipping school and judging other students from the backseat of a motor vehicle."

"Principles? Henry Cheng's principles are all about getting larger font in the school newsletter," Ronan said. He did a vaguely offensive version of Henry's voice: "Serif? Sans serif? More bold, less italics. — Maggie Stiefvater

I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent. — Ulysses S. Grant

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks. — Rob Brezsny

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me — Mike Tyson

I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life. — Lauryn Hill

Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! — Jean-Baptiste Say

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In love we are all brothers and sisters — Jeff Buckley

Let me get this straight. I can't take the vampire with me because if I remove the stake, he can kill us all. Now I can't take the girl because she's what? some kind of ninja witch? — Tate Hallaway

I wanted to be a ballet teacher. — Jaclyn Smith

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well. — Charles Eisenstein

And being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full. — Winston S. Churchill

Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it's living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers. — Sandra Bullock

It was not something you could call friendship; it was at once less and more. The sharing of such experiences created a bond and set them apart from all others. It was not something that could be told to another person. There were no words with a meaning both could understand which would impart the physical horror or the heights and depths of emotion. — Anne Perry