Stranieri Quotes & Sayings

My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said — Isobelle Carmody

The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty fucking cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too? — Bill Hicks

Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist's nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences. — Thomas Mann

Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so. — Nana Awere Damoah

She's all broken inside but no one will ever notice. - Unknown — Monica Murphy

It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible. — David Boies

Even though being a kid is kind of a carefree sort of thing for the most part, I guess there are definitely a lot of things that stick in kids' minds. — Isaac

Later in life, as I competed against the banks, I would think back to this moment, and it gave me confidence. All the bankers did was copy what everyone else did. — Ashlee Vance

That's really been my passion: to communicate to a broad audience why the technology matters for you. — Pete Cashmore

The most memorable instance of my life is when I first initiated a conversation with you and you replied. — KP

O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth? — William Shakespeare

I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it.' — Emily Browning

Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died. A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It's not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember. Because you should realise the Cenotaph and the Last Post and all that stuff is concerned, there's no better way of forgetting something than by commemorating it. — Alan Bennett

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art. — Anthony Burgess

She drew his eye like the shore draws the ocean. Nothing seemed as interesting, as captivating, as important as the face of that girl. — M. Leighton