Mutinies Finger Quotes & Sayings

enthralled with the film as I — Karina Halle

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h — Napoleon Bonaparte

The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions. If the citizen is to be a reformer, he must start with some ideal which he does not obtain merely by gazing reverently at the unreformed institutions. And if any one asks, as so many are asking: 'What is the use of my son learning all about ancient Athens and remote China and medieval guilds and monasteries, and all sorts of dead or distant things, when he is going to be a superior scientific plumber in Pimlico?' the answer is obvious enough. 'The use of it is that he may have some power of comparison, which will not only prevent him from supposing that Pimlico covers the whole planet, but also enable him, while doing full credit to the beauties and virtues of Pimlico, to point out that, here and there, as revealed by alternative experiments, even Pimlico may conceal somewhere a defect. — G.K. Chesterton

you're not just a pickpocket with fast hands." Rieker's eyes locked on hers. "I found a girl caring for other orphans like a mother. A girl who'd befriended an old bookshop keeper who had lost his only daughter. A girl who can read and is helping others learn to read." His voice softened. "And a girl so beautiful at times, you take my breath away. — Kiki Hamilton

It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.
I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong. — Jandy Nelson

The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nobody shall drive us away," I said. "We're going to be happy here." We said it like a challenge to fate. — Agatha Christie

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. — Clarence Darrow

I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress. — Frank A. Vanderlip

The most pleasant surprise is to get lost in the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons. — Jock Stein

Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed. — Suze Orman