Upends En Quotes & Sayings

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. — Edward Young

Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling — Larry The Cable Guy

These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off. — Stephen Richards

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. — Jedediah Purdy

She's pure evil. Stay on her good side."
"And here I thought she hated me because I don't sing stupid songs. — Heather Davis

could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find In that decrepit Man so firm a mind. — William Wordsworth

Love few, love hard. — Tessa Bailey

In Germany the police had supported the Nazis and sided with the Brownshirts. Would they do the same here? Surely — Ken Follett

I hate to interrupt such a touching scene but those hellhounds are not going to wait for you two to play kissey face. So, unless you intend to nail a chunk of roast beef to my butt and have me run around as a distraction, I would suggest we prepare for battle. Pg. 113-114 — Alexandra Ivy

Some may belittle politics, but we know - who are engaged in it - that it is where people stand tall. And, although I know it has its many harsh contentions, it is still the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. And if it is, on occasions, the place of low skulduggery, it is more often the place for the pursuit of noble causes. — Tony Blair

Borges's ethnocentric limitation does not detract from his many other admirable qualities, but it is best not to sidestep it when giving a comprehensive appraisal of his work. Certainly, it is a limitation that offers further proof of his humanity because, as has been said over and over again, there is no such thing as absolute perfection in this world, not even in the world of a creative artist like Borges, who comes as close as anyone to achieving it. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant. — Wayne Coyne

Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere. — Malala Yousafzai

The first step is to admit you're powerless. You have an addiction, and you can't stop. The first step is to tell your story, all the worst parts. Your lowest lows. — Chuck Palahniuk

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here. — Jez Butterworth