Samuel Mcchord Crothers Quotes

#1. Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England

Lauren Willig

#2. Your reputation will rest only on this, because ultimately reality is social, it's among others that we have to live and their judgments matter.

Ian McEwan

#3. Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#4. Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

William Kirby

#5. The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#6. The world was more dangerous than it had been a few weeks ago. It was a world that slipped and slid beneath you, where children died because mothers forgot to check the latch. How did you keep your child safe in that kind of world?

Sharon Guskin

#7. To say, "I've been converted and that's that," is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

Steve Goodier

#8. If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.

Walter Bonatti

#9. I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

Taylor Swift

#10. A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#11. Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#12. And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.

Ray Bradbury

#13. The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#14. There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

J.G. Holland

#15. In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#16. Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

Ralph Marston

#17. Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

Samuel McChord Crothers

#18. I put a big slab of butter into the pan. The Olekseis didn't give one damn about health, which made them refreshing to cook for, and my motto was pretty much, 'When in doubt, add butter.'
Right now, I was definitely in doubt.
I added more butter.

Beth Harbison

#19. Commitment to the rule of law provides a basic assurance that people can know what to expect whether what they do is popular or unpopular at the time.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#20. Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

Walter Annenberg