Patrick Colquhoun Quotes & Sayings

None but the lark so shrill and clear;
Now at heaven's gate she claps her wings,
The morn not waking till she sings. — John Lyly

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

There can be no greater act of kindness than to help others when your own world has been destroyed. — Barbara Stocking

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble. — Shaquille O'Neal

I just love what I do so much. — Lilly Singh

Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells. — Bruce Vilanch

Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow. — Cassandra Clare

Poverty . . . is a most necessary and indispensable ingredient in society, without which nations and communities could not exist in a state of civilisation," the Scottish merchant and statistician Patrick Colquhoun, turned London magistrate, said in 1806, ironically in an argument for raising people from destitution and misery to mere poverty. "It is the lot of man - it is the source of wealth, since without poverty there would be no labour, and without labour there could be no riches, no refinement, no comfort, and no benefit to those who may be possessed of wealth."113 And weren't the poor resentful that they could not eat rich meats, sauces, and sweets and dubious about the rule that each rank in society needed a distinct diet? — Rachel Laudan

Reading a book is better than talking to a fool. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I have great friends. That's key for me for: surrounding myself with people who are supportive and kind. — Robert Piper

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy. — Sam Brownback

Every day the men around me came to exercise their bodies; I came to exorcise my demons — Leslie Feinberg