Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.

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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.
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I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.
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At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
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You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.
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The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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We learn only to ask more questions.
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I'm feeling good about my movement on grass courts; I can serve a little bit better. This makes me much more dangerous than on hard.
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As the polarization in D.C. spreads, the people willing to come to the middle find less and less acceptance.
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The response from the beginning has been really, really wonderful and positive. People have always really responded to me talking about mental health.
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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.
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I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.
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I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.
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When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?
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As Lent is the time for greater love, listen to Jesus' thirst...'Repen t and believe' Jesus tells us. What are we to repent? Our indifference, our hardness of heart. What are we to believe? Jesus thirsts even now, in your heart and in the poor -- He knows your weakness. He wants only your love, wants only the chance to love you.
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They were winning Super Bowls without me, ... There's no pressure on me to come in and have the weight of trying to carry the load.
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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.