Stillery Quotes & Sayings

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife ... — George Orwell

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper. — Napoleon Hill

When something bad happens to us, something good happens - often to someone else. And that's The Good Luck of Right Now. We must believe it. We must. We must. We must. — Matthew Quick

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage. — Sachin Tendulkar

As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted, of a long-dead German economist were bringing biblical calamity to China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. — Martin Amis

Britain's relationship with America might be described as 'special', but only if by 'special' we mean 'frequently dysfunctional'. — Ben Crystal

Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. — Dan Barker

Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers. — Ken Wilber

I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this. — Oscar Wilde

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. — Erich Fromm

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable. — Fiona Shaw

In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day. — Travis Barker