Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Quotes
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
Hector Hugh Munro
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I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.
Marion Cotillard
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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
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I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.
Kevin Costner
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I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.
Kyrsten Sinema
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The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.
Lysander Spooner
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I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen.
Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
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When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
Nick van de Wall
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
Vladimir Lenin
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No one is fine on his own. People just say they are.
Anne Mallory
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I click on the deaths and read the names carefully, memorising them. Because here’s the simple truth—if I hadn’t taken the ship off Phydus, people like ***** and ******* would still be alive. And while I could say that a shorter life with feelings is better than a longer life without, the dead can’t tell me their side.
Beth Revis
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I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.
Everett Ruess
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I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
Hector Hugh Munro
