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

• Clear Conscience
• Cear soup

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• I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Education
  • Positive

• I think governments can't do much.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Government
  • I Think

• Who knows what will happen in five years' time.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Time
  • Years
  • Will

• When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Money
  • Experience

• 'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• 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've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

  

  Kevin Costner

• I'm an environmentalist; I recycle.

  

  Kyrsten Sinema

• 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
  • Age

• 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
  • Music

• I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.

  

  Kiran Bedi
  • Up
  • Justice
  • Vision

• Whether there's 100 people or 100,000, we bring our 'A' game every single time. We're full-speed on stage. We kick the audience's butt.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Time
  • Game

• What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Fitness

• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  

  Donovan Bailey
  • Long
  • Brain
  • Exercise

• The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

  

  Li Lu
  • Money

• There is an old belief that solving environmental problems can only be achieved by first building enough economic wealth so we can 'afford to save the environment.' This 'Kuznets Curve' thinking has never been correct and must be abandoned once and for all if we are serious about economic development for a thriving humanity on Earth.

  

  Johan Rockstrom
  • Thinking
  • Earth
  • Environment

• I feel more content with what I wear. I always feel confident. I shop for my age and my body.

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • Age

• If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.'

  

  Peter T. King
  • People
  • Guy
  • Water

• 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
  • Giving
  • Desire
  • Enemy

• 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
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Deaths

• I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Silence
  • Strategy

• When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • People
  • Fear

• 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
  • Clear Conscience
  • Cear soup