Shakos Quotes & Sayings

You mean,' Captain Penderton said, 'that any fulfilment obtained at the expense of normalcy is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness. In short, it is better, because it is morally honourable, for the square peg to keep scraping around the round hole rather than to discover and use the unorthodox square that would fit?' ... 'I don't agree — Carson McCullers

Gascoigne believed that justice ought to be a synonym for mercy, not an alternative. — Eleanor Catton

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me. — Hank Green

Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. — Swami Vivekananda

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first. — Robert K. Greenleaf

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. — Jeff Lynne

A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved. — Shulamith Firestone

Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map. — Julian Barnes

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae. — Estelle

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. — Kanye West

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me. — Franz Kafka

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. — Joyce Brothers

What else is love, but to give someone else happiness when you know your own is impossible? — Garon Whited

Your principal concern appears to be that the creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. — Sam Harris

God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon