Nolite Bastardes Quotes & Sayings

The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life. — Edmund Hillary

You will never go wrong obeying God. — Charles Stanley

You probably think I'm just a hysterical woman who would be better off home doing woman's work."
"We're in the state that was the first to give women the right to vote. I'm not about to tell you what a woman's work should be," I said... — Hunter Shea

I knelt to examine the floor, and there it was, in tiny writing, quite fresh it seemed, scratched with a pin or maybe just a fingernail, in the corner where the darkest shadow fell: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. — Margaret Atwood

Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills. — Jay Samit

To be feared is much safer then to be loved. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Stirlings of old had been so damned besotted with their newfound earldom that they couldn't think to put any other name on anything ... It was a wonder he didn't drink Kilmartin Tea and sit on a Kilmartin-style chair. In fact, he probably would be doing just that if his grandmother had found a way to manage it without actually taking the family into trade. — Julia Quinn

I pray silently: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I don't know what it means, but it sounds right, and it will have to do, because I don't know what else I can say to God. — Margaret Atwood

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them. — Adam Sandler

They're her book club but I don't know why because they're not reading books. — Emma Donoghue

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment. — Bryant McGill

We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still — Henry David Thoreau

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves. — Eli Siegel