Lionlike Word Quotes & Sayings

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular. — Jean Paul Gaultier

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke? — Robert Orben

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual. — John Podhoretz

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money. — Napoleon Hill

I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake. — Gustave Courbet

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this. — Sean Brady

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug. — David Shrigley

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell

Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms. — Bee Wilson

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy, — Frances Moore Lappe

Stick to the needle, learn shirt-making and gown-making and piecrust-making, and you will be a clever woman some day. — Charlotte Bronte

A bird in a cage is not half a bird. — Henry Ward Beecher