William Soutar Quotes
A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
William Soutar
Quotes to Explore
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
Stevie Wonder
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If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.
Tom Stoppard
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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
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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
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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
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
George Washington
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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
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I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)
Ernest Rutherford
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
Kapil Dev
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For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.
Carrie-Anne Moss
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Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
Willa Cather
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Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
Jay-Z