Tropel Inc Quotes & Sayings

One grows to the belief that, while woman's glory is in her hair, man's glory is to defeat some one. And if he can 'defeat with great slaughter' his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing. — Elbert Hubbard

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since. — Joseph Heller

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. — Arthur Phillips

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. — Kurt Vonnegut

Always choose yourself first. Women are very socialized to choose other people. If you put yourself first, it's this incredible path you can forge for yourself. — Rebecca Traister

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way. — Duane Michals

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Read the kind of stuff you wish you could write. — Douglas Wilson

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And they always increase a star's fan following. — Randolph Scott

Falconer's grasp of period and places is almost flawless ... He's my kind of writer. — Peter Corris

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead ... — Mickey Spillane

Whether someone like Klitschko wins, loses, draws, or gets knocked out in five seconds, he is still a big name. — Tyson Fury

It is right," said the abbess. "It isn't kind ... What else did our Lord show us, Sister?" she asked, "in this Paschal time? I expect, like you, after all the suffering, betrayal, desertion, intolerable disappointment, and being hurt, he would have liked to have taken refuge with his Father, but he stayed on earth and what did he do> He didn't try then to teach us, bring us up
that was left to the Holy Spirit. He did simple ordinary loving things: loving things, Sister, like consoling Mary Magdalene, walking and talking with the disciples, breaking bread with them, cooking their breakfast. Didn't you," asked the Abbess Catherine, "come here to try and follow him? — Rumer Godden

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game. — John Burnside