Jm Synge Quotes & Sayings

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl. — Agnes Repplier

As I left my cab in the traffic jam, the driver made it clear he didn't like it that I was ending our relationship so unexpectedly — Steve Toltz

It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you. — Gertrude Stein

I am one of the few people I know of who has argued in print that torture may be an ethical necessity in our war on terror. — Sam Harris

When we have the ability to save someone's life, and we decide they aren't worthy of being saved - isn't that playing God as well? — Diana Peterfreund

Those movies sure got me into a rut. — Elvis Presley

Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. — Alexander Hume

This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. — William Lyon Phelps

There is something of yours that i would like to return to you ... He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own. — Holly Black

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new. — Albert Einstein

But as I peeked at my brother's inert body ... I was aware only of what a strange thing it was to be male. Society discriminated against women, no question. But what about the discrimination of being sent war? Which sex was really thought to be expendable. — Jeffrey Eugenides

And then when you go away, you may leave one or two of my sisters behind you; and I dare say I shall get husbands for them before the winter is over.'
"I thank you for my share of the favour,' said Elizabeth, "But I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands. — Jane Austen

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight. — Mahatma Gandhi

Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy. — Mallory Ortberg