Sprits Quotes & Sayings

High sprits they had: gravity they flouted. — Cecil Day-Lewis

The triumph of the Confederacy ... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world ... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs. — John Stuart Mill

I think we spent close to thirty Euros pumping change into a game called Area 51. If the earth is ever attacked by aliens, you're welcome to stand behind me. — C.J. Roberts

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing. — George Harrison

No!" He recoiled. "You and I are finished."
"Son ... " I started.
But he rounded on me. "Do you think me so soft that calling me son might change my mind? How long did you sit on this information? Or am I to believe you only discovered it now? My mother's blood may stain another's hands, but Charles Lee is no less a monster, and all he does, he does by your command. — Oliver Bowden

You know what is so appealing about you, in a twisted, messed up kind of way?"
"What's that?"
"You have no idea how tactless you are."
"Well. I have some idea," I grumble. — Lindy Zart

Misrecognition subverts the possibility of equal democratic participation. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Its success lies in the fact that it's an insurance plan, not an investment plan or a welfare plan. — James Roosevelt

Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos. — Spike Jonze

In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. — Joseph Conrad

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters
nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided
the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity. — William Matthews