Saboteur Quotes

#1. Sneaking out at night. You think you're so clever, but you're not. Either you're a saboteur, Johannes, or you've got a mistress.
The Reverend's wife, Grete
The Informer

Steen Langstrup

#2. It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

Questlove

#3. A producer is a saboteur who tries to infiltrate the passivity of viewers and to create impressions that are lasting.

Bill Moyers

#4. My father believed it was a cancerous lump, not because my mother was genetically prone to such a thing, but because he was looking out for the saboteur of his wonderful life.

Sarah Winman

#5. It is not uncommon for someone to be a self-saboteur and compound that by also having a victim mentality. It is as though they are holding their own breath and then blaming others for their inability to breathe. If they can break free from this cycle, everything in their life changes for the better.

Steve Maraboli

#6. 'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

Manny Farber

#7. Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Meghan O'Rourke

#8. How can you make a revolution without firing squads?' Lenin asked. 'If we can't shoot a White Guard saboteur, what sort of great revolution is it? Nothing but talk and a bowl of mush.

Niall Ferguson

#9. You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

Tim Vine

#10. And I, a self-saboteur of the first degree, did it anyway.

M. Pierce

#11. Maybe, you never know. I've always been quite the self-saboteur.

Hank Moody

#12. The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five minutes late you are betraying socialism; if you arrive on time they say, Where did you get the watch?

Len Deighton

#13. Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

Mark Leyner

#14. In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

Mike Gordon

#16. I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#17. I think adults forget just how much faith teenagers can have in them, just how willing to believe that adults, by virtue of being adults, know absolute truths, or that absolute truths are even knowable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#18. When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

Benjamin Millepied

#19. I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

Gene Hackman

#20. Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology.

Zaman Ali

#21. Why don't you want a boyfriend?"
"I don't know. Maybe I do. I'd just have to meet the right guy. Someone who isn't ordinary. Someone who get someone I fit perfectly with. I want heat, chemistry, an undeniable connection. You know what I mean? I want it all. I'm done with ordinary and mediocre.

Jessica Park

#22. When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.

Joe Cocker

#23. She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?

Francine Rivers

#24. Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. - Kierkegaard

Oliver Sacks

#25. Holy Hecate, petals, branches, and breath," Tamani swore, his face lined with concern. "You can do that?

Aprilynne Pike

#26. There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.

Stewart Butterfield

#27. Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Eugene Ionesco

#28. Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.

Dalton Trumbo