Pilfered Armor Quotes & Sayings

The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth. — Cynthia Ozick

To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine. — Mason Cooley

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps. — Dennis Hastert

They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore. — John Boyle O'Reilly

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters. — Ernst F. Schumacher

I think it is one of the fundamentals, not only of the European Union but also of free trade, that competition is fair. — Margrethe Vestager

I held Star close before I departed. "If I don't come back," I told her, "find a way to give everyone the plague. — Danielle Paige

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. — Willie Nelson

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world. — Marta Andreasen

I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. — Yann Martel

Do come now," said he ... , "pray come, you must come, I declare you shall come. — Jane Austen

He remembered Tessa weeping in his arms in Paris, and thinking that he had never known the loss she felt, because he had never loved like she had, and that he was afraid that someday he would, and like Tessa he would lose his mortal love. And that it was better to be the one who died than the one who lived on. He had dismissed that, later, as a morbid fantasy, and had not remembered it again until Alec. — Cassandra Clare

Boredom forces you to ring people you haven't seen for eighteen years and halfway through the conversation you remember why you left it so long. Boredom means you start to read not only mail-order catalogues but also the advertising inserts that fall on the floor. Boredom gives you half a mind to get a gun and go berserk in the local shopping centre, and you know where this is going. Eventually, boredom means you will take up golf. — Jeremy Clarkson

I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him. — Alison Jackson

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over. — Margaret Mead