Sir George Savile Quotes & Sayings

Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing. — Anthony John Patrick Kenny

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Donald Trump is launching his own nonprofit group: Borders without Doctors. — Joel Berg

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue. — Haruki Murakami

Marco's [Rubio] had this hanging over his head for a long time. I've been hearing about his credit card problems for so long, what he did with the Republican Party. You had people that doing the checking, accounting people and other people - I mean, they were devastated that nothing was done with Rubio because of what he did. — Donald Trump

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

The NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality. — Dave Goldberg

The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set. — Terry Tempest Williams

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer. — John Perry Barlow

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

ALAS," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. Translated — Franz Kafka

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

I guess when I got into my preteens, I turned about 12 and I decided to sing R&B, because I felt like one day there were some things I felt like I would want to say, that I couldn't say with gospel music. — Jazmine Sullivan

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity. — Harrison Ford

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice. — John Ruskin

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable. — Charles Spurgeon