Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

Hector Hugh Munro

• Cat
• Slums
• Alleys
• Temple courts
• Thebes

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• In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Life
  • Done
  • Nature

• I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Today
  • Parents
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• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
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• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • War
  • Political

• I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World

• Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Smile
  • Shine

• We didn’t care if people stared;We’d make out in a crowd somewhere.Somebody’d tell us to get a room;It’s hard to believe that was me and you.Now we keep saying that we’re OK.But I don’t want to settle for good not great.I miss the way that it felt back then; I wanna feel that way again.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Party

• I've always loved movies, since I was a little kid, but I never wanted to be part of that industry. It always seemed horrifying, the way films were made.

  

  Benh Zeitlin

• I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Growing

• I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.

  

  Ella Woodward

• We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • Trying
  • Service

• Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.

  

  Frank Miller
  • War
  • Effort
  • Military

• For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

  

  David Rittenhouse
  • May
  • Taken

• There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Paul Washer
  • God
  • Power
  • Jesus

• Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poorOnly as free as a padlocked prison doorOnly as strong as our love for this landOnly as tall as we stand!

  

  Phil Ochs
  • She
  • Free
  • Strong

• JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Believe

• For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

  

  Marc Singer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Cat
  • Slums
  • Alleys