Ones Who Leave And Take Credit Quotes & Sayings

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to Nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees. — Anthony Burgess

I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing. — Pep Guardiola

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back. — Josiah Stamp

A smile for death is the final courtesy. — Jocelyne Saucier

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you. — John Mayer

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps be content to leave it to take care of itself; or, at all events, you will not go out of your way to push its fortunes; for you will reflect that in the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. In the long run, we say; it will meanwhile cost you an occasional pang to see your cherished theory turned into a football by the critics. A football is not, as such, a very respectable object, and the more numerous the players, the more ridiculous it becomes. Unless, therefore, you are very confident of your ability to rescue it from the chaos of kicks, you will best consult its interests by not mingling in the game. — Henry James

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. — Barbara Sher

You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published? — Wallace Stegner

There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream ... — Daphne Du Maurier

She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself. — Charles Dickens

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human. — Ayad Akhtar

I actually did Shakespeare when I was at North Carolina School of the Arts. I studied with Gerald Freedman and Mary Irwin - it was fun; I enjoyed it. — Billy Magnussen