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.
-
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
-
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.
-
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
-
We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
-
All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.
-
If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.
-
I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
-
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
