Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion, he resumed presently. They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.Hector Hugh Munro
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
Jack Henry Abbott -
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
Sal Albanese -
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
Dan Jenkins -
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
Ramana Maharshi
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Jack Vance -
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
Orville Wright -
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
V. S. Naipaul -
Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
Abraham Verghese -
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
P. J. O'Rourke -
My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.
Padmasree Warrior -
A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.
Nancy Gibbs -
Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
Rajiv Ouseph -
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
Karen Salmansohn
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Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu -
Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water in the great looming form of Lake Pontchartrain, water cutting through in tributaries, water flowing beside a long stretch of highway, water just - everywhere.
Rachel Sklar -
It would not be better if men got what they wanted.
Euripides -
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
William James -
With the classical stuff, I've always been better at the big brushstrokes and broad textures than spending ages honing a chord, or tweaking a sample.
Anna Meredith -
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion, he resumed presently. They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
Hector Hugh Munro