Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
-
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
-
You have to relish the challenge of television.
-
This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
-
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
-
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
-
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
-
I don't want to lose what I've won.
-
I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
-
If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
-
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
-
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
-
There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
-
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
-
If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
-
Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
-
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
-
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
-
Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.
-
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
-
Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."
-
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
