Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

Hector Hugh Munro

• Virtue
• One Thing
• Respectability
• End Of The World
• Tent

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • People

• Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Water

• When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • May
  • Reality
  • Surprise

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold,

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Sun
  • Bold
  • Captains

• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Children
  • Earth
  • Giving

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• I loved playing for him. He brought me here to Brockton three years ago and I appreciate that he did. I hope things work out for him.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Playing

• Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

  

  Antoine Arnauld
  • Rest
  • Eternity

• Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small. The most difficult things in the world must be done while they are easy; the greatest things in the world must be done while they are small.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Virtue
  • Enmity

• Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Virtue
  • Thieves
  • Goodie

• The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Eyes
  • Painting
  • Virtue

• It was one thing to go to the end of the world; it was quite another thing to make oneself at home there. Even respectability seemed to lose some of its virtue when one practiced it in a tent.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Virtue
  • One Thing
  • Respectability