Strafford Quotes & Sayings

Son, quite aside from my own conditioned reflex against munching a roast haunch of - well, you, for example - quite aside from that trained-in emotional prejudice, for coldly practical reasons I regard our taboo against cannibalism as an excellent idea . . . because we are not civilized." "Huh?" "Obvious. If we didn't have a tribal taboo about the matter so strong that you honestly believed it was an instinct, I can think of a long list of people I wouldn't trust with my back turned, not with the price of beef what it is today. Eh? — Robert A. Heinlein

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong. — Stanley Kubrick

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. — L.M. Montgomery

You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right. — Marie Curie

More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy. — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Of Strafford

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble. — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Of Strafford

It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin. — Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Of Strafford

Happiness can never fail to be the right choice, and love can carry us through. — D. Love

Think I am? Smothered in fancy furs? The food churned in my stomach. I gagged. I ran to her backyard and threw it all up. Out she came. Look at what he did. Thrun up his First Communion breakfast. Thrun up the body and blood of Jesus. I have God in me backyard. What am I goin' to do? I'll take him to the Jesuits for they know the sins of the Pope himself. — Frank McCourt

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land. — Carter Heyward

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind. — Mencius

I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it. — Estelle

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries. — Derek Jarman