Lord Milner Quotes & Sayings

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail. — Kent Beck

When you'r no longer identified with roles and labels and conventional definition of person — U.G. Krishnamurti

The best way to get what you
want from a situation is to have
clarity about the outcome you
want to achieve. — Domonique Bertolucci

Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names. — Edmund Crispin

Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don't really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are. — Veronica Roth

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one's anger. — Anne Bronte

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own. — Gerald Brenan

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus. — Charles Caleb Colton

Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest, apostle of love. Thy love, forever, eternal, that my faith may become as complete, as flaming and tranquil, as his, and pierce as deep and speak as simply in the spirit. — Eric Milner-White

When you have two notes from two different performances Auto-Tuned, it sounds like a car horn. And then you add harmonies, and it starts to sound like baby seals honking. - Tom Lord-Alge on Auto-Tune — Greg Milner

Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights. — Shirin Ebadi

I had to come out on stage with my little staff and robe and I had this sun on top of my head that my mom made - that was the first time I was ever on stage singing in front of anybody. I realized that I was one of the best acts of the night but I didn't give singing much thought after that. I was really into playing baseball. — Gonjasufi

From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans. — Maurice Cowling

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me. — E. J. Hughes

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It's a rule from the heartbreak version of 'rock, paper, scissors. — Julie Klausner