William Soutar Quotes

A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

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• If you don't ask, you don't get.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Get
  • Ask
  • Don't

• If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Power
  • Fighting
  • Plates

• I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Opportunity
  • Strategy
  • Disagree

• If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • People
  • Mind
  • Power

• Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

  

  George Washington
  • Humanity
  • Interest
  • Harmony

• I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Materials
  • Offensive

• Is there anything more important than a child?

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Important
  • Child

• I'll get up in the morning while they've all got hangovers and run my 5 miles. But the women who do run are usually 10 years younger than me and they're really obsessed about running. That's all they do. They're really boring.

  

  Trisha Goddard
  • Running
  • Morning
  • Boring

• The conditions at Baxter do need to be improved and when we have finished the job, I think everybody will be very proud of it, ... It will never be a fun place to be but it will be very good.

  

  Amanda Vanstone
  • Conditions
  • Finished
  • Improved

• That was a good at-bat, and I think that was the key of the game. He's getting more comfortable.

  

  Carlos Zambrano
  • Game
  • Comfortable
  • Key

• Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Learned
  • Governments
  • Farmers

• Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a way, legitimately, to maintain your sense of specialness and difference? And how do you express that? Does it just become a kind of kitsch? You can say this of gay people, but it's true for Jewish people, Italian Americans, everyone who deals with it. It's a question of assimilation. How can you be assimilated and special at the same time?

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Problem

• Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll singer I saw because Elvis was the first rock ‘n’ roll singer who did movies.

  

  Johnny Hallyday
  • Movies
  • Singer
  • Elvis

• If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

  

  Euripides
  • Life
  • Good
  • Think

• We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

  

  Josephine Hart
  • Prove
  • Goodness
  • Exists

• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Advice

• A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

  

  William Soutar
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