Larkin Hospital Quotes

#1. Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.

Phyllis George

#2. She felt that she was beginning to know the pang of disappointed love, and that no other man could be the occasion of such delightful aerial building as she had been enjoying for the last six months.

George Eliot

#3. LUKE Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not, Yet have I ta'en both uniform and life From thee. What manner of a man wert thou? A man of inf'nite jest or cruelty? A man with helpmate and with children too? A man who hath his Empire serv'd with pride?

Ian Doescher

#4. I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

Pope Francis

#5. I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

Kirk Douglas

#6. No ghosts need apply.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. This was an age of utopianism. Political leaders had utopian visions, and so did many citizens, especially the younger generation. The spirit is hard to capture in an age of skepticism, since utopianism, like revolution, is so unreasonable.

Sheila Fitzpatrick

#8. If he truly wanted me to let everything go, I'd flip over and ride him right there on the range. Screw golf, I'd screw him instead.

Karina Halle

#9. But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.

Donald Cargill

#10. Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Philip Larkin