Pioneerlike Quotes & Sayings

But when you're in something together, it's very hard to be objective and you're very subjective. — Kyra Sedgwick

Clyde had a theory that women had a book, a homemade, photocopied three-ring binder called "Surprising Things to Do in a Relationship," which they passed around to one another, adding pages from time to time, hiding it under the bed. He figured that Desiree could run home tonight and add a new page. — Neal Stephenson

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force. — Gerd Von Rundstedt

The strength of Freemasonry is in its loyalty to each other. — Vasilios Karpos

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both — Bernard Kouchner

... bleak, wind-swept fens and moors; empty fields with broken walls and gates hanging off their hinges; a black, ruined church; an open grave; a suicide buried at a lonely crossroads; a fire of bones blazing in the twilit snow; a gallows with a man swinging from its arm; another man crucified upon a wheel; an ancient spear plunged into the mud with a strange talisman, like a little leather finger, hanging from it; a scarecrow whose black rags blew about so violently in the wind that he seemed about to leap into the grey air and fly towards you on vast black wings ... — Susanna Clarke

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. — Cyndi Lauper

A man's destiny is not in the eyes of others. It's in his own. And that, my young friend, is as good as any bank note. — Jonathan Evison

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

At the social/political/ juridical, etc., level, the organizing principle was less to do with games and more to do with the nature of taboos - enormously powerful, often enormously arbitrary, and (crucially) regularly quietly broken, without undermining the fact of the taboo itself. That last element, I think, is sometimes underestimated in the discussions of cultural norms, where they are both asserted and breached. Both those elements are foundational.
- author interview — China Mieville

What, Lucius, ho!
I cannot, by the progress of the stars,
Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!
I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.
When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius! — William Shakespeare

Not only the people of Nepal but also those who believe in the power of democracy are looking at Nepal and this assembly. — Narendra Modi

The singing was something I got from my father. — Woody Herman