Soliselect Quotes & Sayings

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be. — Edmund Burke

It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we die round — Daniel Gottlieb

Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they? — Amitav Ghosh

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day. — Anthony Hopkins

He was twenty eight years old now, and wise enough to know that there are sometimes reasons of which the reason knows nothing, and that the fictional pattern of one's life, formed and set by years of living, is not to be discarded quite as easily as one may throw away a battered hat or worn-out shoe. — Thomas Wolfe

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long. — Phil Robertson

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters. — Iain Banks