Top 14 Steadfast Tin Soldier Quotes
#1. Self-pity is like chocolate; as you get older, you can only afford a little bit.
Charlaine Harris
#2. [It] was the first time in my life I ever knew the meaning of that rare thing, tenderness. A quality different from kindliness, affectionateness, or benevolence; a quality which can exist only in strong, deep, and undemonstrative natures, and therefore in its perfection is oftenest found in men.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
#3. Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.
John C. Calhoun
#4. We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#5. A bird may love a fish but where would they build a home together?
Joseph Stein
#6. I think that giant American corporations should start asking themselves if the things they make are really, I mean really, better than the ordinary. Clearly people want things that make their lives the way they wish they were.
John Peterman
#7. The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.
William O'Neil
#8. Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.
Stephen King
#9. I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.
Jean Smart
#11. Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#12. My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
Gianni Versace
#13. It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.
Henry David Thoreau
