Winstone England Quotes & Sayings

Call it a character flaw
when under attack, I counter attack. Always. — Richard Marcinko

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world. — Dewitt Jones

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction ... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot. — Sherilyn Fenn

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. — Samuel Johnson

Them Jews aren't going to let (Obama) talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office ... They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. — Jeremiah Wright

The tears in my pus-filled eyes became a thousand little crystals of ever color. Like stained-glass windows, I thought. God is with you today, Papi! In the midst of nature's monstrous elements, in the wind, the immenseness of the sea, the depth of the waves, the imposing green roof of the bush, you feel your own infinitesimal smallness, and perhaps it's here, without looking for Him, that you find God, that you touch Him with your finger. I had sensed Him at night during the thousands of hours I had spent buried alive in dank dungeons without a ray of sun; I touched Him today in a sun that would devour everything too weak to resist it. I touched God, I felt Him around me, inside me. He even whispered in my ear: You will suffer; you will suffer more. But this time I am on your side. You will be free. You will, I promise you. — Henri Charriere

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. — Ernst Kaltenbrunner

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. — Will Rogers

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. — C.S. Lewis

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations. — Bruno Latour

I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of our work? It's not our job to judge the worth of what we offer the world, but to keep offering it regardless. You might never know the true worth of your efforts. Or it could simply be too soon to tell. — Regina Brett

To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt. SECTION — Arthur Schopenhauer

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. — J. Paul Getty

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself. — Francis Bacon

Sometimes, especially under severe repressive regimes, the victimized adores the torturers out of a total absence of resistance. In these sad cases, tyranny and oppression become institutional and an accepted practice in the community. As a result, anger and frustration is piled up, and will be released on the streets at the first opportunity. — Hani Soubra