Outworks Quotes

#1. All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.

Lord Chesterfield

#2. If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.

David Letterman

#6. I consider all my films an experiment, at least in my mind.

Michael Haneke

#7. that true sheet-grabbing throb that emanated from the sweat-soaked room on the third floor.

Daniel Jose Older

#8. Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits
and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

Omar Khayyam

#9. I don't regret anything.

Amy Winehouse

#10. I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.

Steve Roper

#11. The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

William Ralph Inge

#12. You don't have to have all the answers all the time. But the best thing to know is what you don't know.

Christine Quinn

#13. Technology serves life. It does not destroy it. These lessons are rooted in the very foundations of Sectilius culture and law, without deviation, under threat of penalty of strictest nature.

Jennifer Foehner Wells

#14. Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

Michael Stuhlbarg

#15. If you are not living each day with excitement, energy, and passion, then you are not living true to your life purpose.

Celestine Chua

#16. She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.

Stephen King

#17. You're not in a pissing match with a seven-year-old, are you? Gunner called.

Lizzy Ford

#18. Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.

Kourtney Kardashian

#19. I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

Dermot Mulroney