Top 24 Sir Able Quotes
#2. If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#3. Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?
Colleen Hoover
#4. Affection may not be love, but it is at least its cousin.
J.M. Coetzee
#7. Sir, the nation is tense," said Cliff gravely. " It is asking itself how it can possibly stand idly by drinking gourmet coffee when an entire race is about to be disassembled. It wants to Enjoy, yes, but it feels it won't be able to fully Enjoy until some other closure is reached.
George Saunders
#8. I have always had a great need for solitude. I require huge swathes of loneliness and when I do not have it, which has been the case for the last five years, my frustration can sometimes become almost panicked, or aggressive.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#9. The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang.
Jamaica Kincaid
#10. As soon as you recognize that you are able to control your thoughts, happiness will come within your reach.
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
#11. To love is to suffer in a fallen world. There are no safe investments, there are no safe relationships. In this world there are no investments of love that come with a guarantee that you will not be hurt and disappointed.
Philip Carlson
#12. If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.
Angelina Jolie
#13. We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer.
Gene Wolfe
#15. Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it!
Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.
Michael Faraday
#16. Pray, speak, sir; to see your face, and not be able to read it, gives me a worse dread than I trust any words of yours will justify.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#17. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
William Shakespeare
#18. Roses are red,
And ready for plucking,
You're sixteen,
And ready for high school.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
Brenda Brathwaite
#20. We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that, we find we can't believe. He can't be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table.
Gene Wolfe
#21. We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
Paul Watson
#23. Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.
Emile Zola
#24. I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.
Steven Conrad
