Julian Winthrop Muir Quotes & Sayings

We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy. — Arthur Helps

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance. — Francois Hollande

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked. — Aristotle.

I shook my head. "They want out. Dominic told me they were cuttin' ties with you! — L.A. Casey

They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it. — Paul Lambert

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc De Clapiers

No thanks," I answered, "I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories. — John Zakour

Of all the people in the crowded six hundred fifty-capacity gymnasium, I was the one to hit his radar. I had no idea how to deal with the attention. So, I pretty much functioned in freak mode. — Linda Kage

They say that people standing on a height have an impulse to throw themselves down. I imagine that many suicides and murders have been committed simply because the revolver has been in the hand. It is like a precipice, with an incline of an angle of forty-five degrees, down which you cannot help sliding, and something impels you irresistibly to pull the trigger. But the knowledge that I had seen, that I knew it all, and was waiting for death at her hands without a word - might hold her back on the incline. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't get the action ... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun. — Laila Ali

This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice people - because, surely, Wally was nice - would say a host of critical things about someone to whom they would then be perfectly pleasant. At. St. Cloud's, criticism was plainer - and harder, if not impossible, to conceal. — John Irving