Nigels 11 Quotes & Sayings

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes. — Samuel Johnson

We should not accept an evil we can change. — E. Lockhart

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job? — Christine Baranski

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure. — Francis Fukuyama

The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work. — Justin Hawkins

When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed. — John M. Gottman

It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves ... Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others. — Leo Tolstoy

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts. — George Orwell

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed. — Edward M. Lerner