Rob De Castella Quotes & Sayings

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. — Samuel Johnson

(Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man's prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for human agency, except the kind that leads you to talk about yourself in the presence of another for twenty years. Shallowness can go no deeper. — Theodore Dalrymple

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good. — Michel De Montaigne

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. — George Du Maurier

Naturally, the books and research papers described the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome, and I formed a provisional conclusion that most of these were simply variations in human brain function that had been inappropriately medicalized because they did not fit social norms - constructed social norms - that reflected the most common human configurations rather than the full range. — Graeme Simsion

You have to learn how to listen before you will hear. — Rachel Caine

I'm a late developer. — Kristin Scott Thomas

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. — Colin Powell

In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another, no one seems to think that there are people who might LIKE to kill their neighbours now and then. — Saki

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that. — Regis Philbin

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it. — Anjelica Huston

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.' — Gwendoline Christie

When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free. — Nelson Mandela