Strachey Eminent Quotes & Sayings

Where life used to feel overcrowded, it now feels boundless as the sky. Where I used to feel shackled, I am now free to dance. — Narissa Doumani

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young. — Joanne Woodward

We serve nature's purpose by culling the herd, and our own by sharpening our skills. We are the predatory swarm! — James Luceno

The greatest gift that you can give to others is kindness. — M. Howson

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit. — Wayne Rooney

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it. — Craig Ferguson

Now to reach the point where one evolved technological monkey is typing these words on a keyboard and hoping another evolved technological monkey is bored enough to read them, has taken about 4.34 billion years of planetary evolution. — Steve Merrick

For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness. — David Cannadine

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self? — Gian Kumar

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille. — Lytton Strachey