Niles Crane Quotes & Sayings

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you. — Condoleezza Rice

A prudent consideration for Number One. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices. — Gore Vidal

Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well ... — William Shakespeare

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much. — Charles Grandison Finney

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas. — Anna Deavere Smith

The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them. — Swami Vivekananda

I do not drink from this jug every day. But sometimes at night when the wind blows and I am alone and feeling very solitary, it is my only friend and comfort. Right, Pancho? — Rick Skwiot

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there. — Gloria Steinem