Pungence Quotes

#1. As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.

Blaise Pascal

#2. When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy.

David Suchet

#3. I wanted it so much. I don't know why I wanted it so much.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.

George W. Bush

#5. Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.

Richard Rolle

#6. No man is a great man if he used violence to achieve his goals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author will have to be respected, and the machine will have to mind its manners

Robertson Davies

#8. People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#9. But it is not the length of life that counts - it is the depth and strength of life.

Warren W. Wiersbe