Steely Dan Song Quotes & Sayings

But sometimes deception is needed not to hurt the ones we care for. — Astrid Yrigollen

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution. — Yoko Ono

No man can entirely separate himself in his moral life from his fellows. No matter how vigorous his individuality, he can never escape the consciousness of their standard and their judgment, and he must be swayed by it more or less, even though he denies it for awhile to himself. "Such — Richard Dallas

I said, "Thank you. Go the Saints. Goodbye." Go the Saints; I'd said it. The first time. It felt like... coming out. — Peter Temple

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Be more than a person she would settle for ... be a person she would yearn for. — Steve Maraboli

They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion. — Ambrose Bierce

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny. — Martha Beck

Open your mind, this is only a song,
But the way to be happy is to admit you were wrong. — Matt Haig

Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes. — Adam Sedgwick

Mr. Norrell did not know a great deal about war, but he suspected that soldiers are not generally your great respecters of books. They might put their dirty fingers on them. They might tear them! They might- horror of horrors!- read them and try the spells! — Susanna Clarke

As long as we are grateful, we shall be glad. — Lailah Gifty Akita