Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm Muggeridge

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

John Cheever

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Octavia Butler

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Ovid

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Leonardo da Vinci

Savage is he who saves himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

David Gemmell

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Rick Riordan

Blowfish, did you say?" "Ah, no. Blofis, actually." "Oh, I see," Poseidon said. "A shame. I quite like blowfish.

Mark Twain

Youth is wonderful. It's a shame to waste it on the young.

Maria Edgeworth

Nature's hasty conscience.

Paul Ince

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

Pierre Corneille

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

Seth

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

M. F. K. Fisher

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

Hesiod

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.

Henry George

Everybody works but the vacant lot