Nicholas Monsarrat Quotes

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

Nicholas Monsarrat

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• There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Past
  • Son
  • Thought

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• (Recollection of what he was thinking to himself when confronted by the military): 'They want me out, they want me to abrogate the constitution and this is exactly what Speight wants and if they belong to Speight, I don’t belong to them.'

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Thinking
  • Military

• The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great
  • May

• Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Knowledge

• I'm so blessed with my baby.  And I want the most normal life possible for him.  And I'll manage, I will create that.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Life
  • Baby
  • Blessed

• You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad

• I like any song that can tell a story that people can relate to.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Song

• I am convinced that my dark-horse candidacy helped pave the way for women and members of underserved communities to seek political office.

  

  Deborah K. Ross
  • Women
  • Political
  • Dark

• There is so much talent out there and not quite as much opportunity.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Opportunity

• Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

  

  Craig Brown
  • People
  • Good

• A lot of preachers' kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • World
  • Kids

• You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Black
  • Heaven
  • Beginning

• I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Heaven

• ... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena - care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Care

• No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were only 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.

  

  Brian Urquhart
  • Country
  • Experience
  • Congo

• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Coming
  • Seriousness

• The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

  

  Nicholas Monsarrat
  • Heaven
  • Dead
  • Town