Emily Dickinson Quotes
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a perfectionist to a fault.
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.
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I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
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Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
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I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
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Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
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There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some of us are so accustomed to wearing faultfinding spectacles that we cannot see past them. We need to open our eyes and ears and look for the good and the blessings around us.
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I'm still perplexed, ... I don't fault the police department and I don't fault the prosecution. In a case like this, you have to rely on the company.
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To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
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I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
