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

• “The balls as slippery as a wet trout”

  

  Bill McLaren
  • Balls
  • Slippery
  • Trout

• As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Artist
  • Move
  • Photographer

• I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • Job
  • Age
  • Fear

• 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