George Hearst Quotes

#1. Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

George Hearst

#2. Like the great white pines whose roots grow shallow under the forest floor, they are the first to fall in a storm; so is society whose family values are built on a shallow foundation, are the first to crumble at the first sign of trouble.

Jean Charest

#3. It took me a long time to come out as someone who doesn't like film. It's a bit like when people say they don't like books: you get that sharp intake of breath.

Mark Haddon

#4. You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

George Hearst

#5. You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.

George Hearst

#6. I was not born to crush my own kind.

George Hearst

#7. If anyone should be kind, understanding, accepting, loving to their fellow outcasts, it's you. All of you. You are the guardians of the secrets of the universe, beloved of worlds most would never dream of, much less see. . . can't you see where you owe it to yourselves to be kind?

Seanan McGuire

#8. Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.

Joan Lingard

#9. You have to be a responsible adult and support yourself because no one else is going to do it for you.

Susane Colasanti

#10. I'd found a seventeenth-century map of the rivers of London.

Ben Aaronovitch

#11. If you want to lead, study Moses; if you want to manage study Pharaoh.

Jason Taylor

#12. I'll talk to any stranger about everything. I'm not guarded.

Sarah McLachlan