Roy Urquhart Quotes & Sayings

Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself. — Aristotle.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out. — Snoop Dogg

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat? — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Women candidates have two unique problems. They have trouble raising money and being taken seriously by the media. — Maureen Reagan

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. 'I'm looking for a loop-hole,' he explained. — W.C. Fields

Ahhh, darlin', the women won't even glance my way."
She squeezed. "If they do, they'll learn that I'm a damn good shot. — Carolyn Brown

Dauntless is the cruelest of the five
They tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ... — Veronica Roth

If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago. — Billy Bob Thornton

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient. — Boleslaw Prus

Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground. — Stephen Chbosky

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option. — Jacqueline Novogratz

How sad that youth, with all its power,
Was given us in vain, to burn;
That we betrayed it every hour,
And were deceived by it in turn; — Ivan Turgenev

Wine is sunlight, held together by water. — Galileo Galilei

It's like, what happened, I was always leading fashion, and then the grunge thing kind of came along. And because I've been so on top in the '80s you know, I, you know, what can I do? Suddenly go grunge? — Billy Idol

I shall never 'go and marry' anyone," observed Meg, walking on with great dignity while the others followed, laughing, whispering, skipping stones, and 'behaving like children', as Meg said to herself, — Louisa May Alcott