Sterner Stuff Quotes

#1. Ambition should be made from sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

#2. I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.

Julie Anne Long

#3. I thought all was lost. But I should have known better. My sweet, brave, bluestocking. You are made of sterner stuff than that. And I should have trusted you to save yourself.

Manda Collins

#4. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

William Shakespeare

#5. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

William Shakespeare

#6. then flats of marigolds and petunias. Made of sterner stuff, I figured, their sort might survive my regime of horticultural neglect.

Kathy Reichs

#7. Never worry. Be ever cheerful. Always laugh and smile. You can use the following powerful autosuggestion: "Mr. Worry, goodbye to you. I am a different person now. I am made of sterner stuff." Worry will now be afraid to show his face to you. You can then remove the worries of many of your friends.

Sivananda

#8. Could words and symbols wield such power? Could mere scribblings on parchment unmake a person's moral fiber? Weren't we made of sterner stuff?

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Christina Stead

#10. Only experience can lead you to what it is you want and sometimes, I wish I didn't have so much experience. Now I've got it, I sometimes yearn to have my naivety back again, just so that I didn't know the pain of trying to love someone who can't be loved.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#11. Nothing abstruse or ambivalent about it, not a speck of the metaphoric or the symbolic.

Haruki Murakami

#12. The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances ... That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

Susan B. Anthony

#14. I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Erik Larson

#15. No, I'm not." "Yes, you are." "No, I'm not." "Yes, you are." "I said Pax Non." "You said Pax." "No, I didn't." "Yes, you did." "No, I didn't." "Yes, you did.

T.H. White

#16. It'll be a day in which you tell us how to make Pixar better," John said. "We'll do no work that day. No visitors will be allowed. Everyone must attend.

Ed Catmull

#17. I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly.
"Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.

Paulo Coelho

#19. The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

#20. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

Arthur Miller

#21. I put my heroes through hell...

Anna Erishkigal