Zildjian A Custom Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes the Devil doth preach. — John Webster

What happened?"
"Oil." The sheikh shook his head. "The great cursed wealth from beneath the ground that the Prophet foresaw would destroy us. And statehood-what a terrible idea that was, eh? This part of the world was never meant to function that way. Too many languages, too many tribes, too motivated by ideas those high-heeled cartographers from Paris couldn't understand. Don't understand. Will never understand. Well, God save them-they're not the ones who have to live in this mess. They said a modern state needs a single leader, a secular leader, and the emir was the closest thing we had. So to the emir went all the power. And anyone who thinks that isn't a good idea is hounded down and tossed in jail, as you have so recently discovered. All so that some pantywaist royal nephew can have a seat at the UN and carry a flag in the Olympics and be thoroughly ignored. — G. Willow Wilson

We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good. — Thrity Umrigar

I tried to get into the National Youth Theatre and didn't, and I tried to get into drama school and didn't, and then I went to university and was really delighted that I went there. I think having the word 'no' can be quite creative. — Tamsin Greig

I shall listen to my heart and it shall save me. I shall listen to my heart and I'll be free. — Barry Webster

Normal is modern-day slavery. Don't be normal. — Peter Voogd

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it ... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. — Lydia Lunch

A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. — Ben Lindsey