Stibbe Hill Quotes

#1. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing ... not healing, not curing ... that is a friend who cares.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

Christopher Titus

#3. It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

Robert South

#4. There is only one direction. (Down.) There is only one color. (Black.) And there is only one number (Zero.)

Errol Morris

#5. The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.

Glenn Greenwald

#6. I was wrong, I thought to myself. I honestly believed it. Not because Sister Louise told me or because she made me believe I was. I knew deep down that I was wrong and I think that my emancipation began at that moment.

Melina Marchetta

#7. I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.

Rashid Johnson

#8. I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

Chaz Bono

#9. Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#10. Men do not greet one another like this ... except perhaps at rugby club dinners.

Alan Cooper

#11. Everything we can dream can be real.

Pablo Picasso

#12. I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

John Henry Mackay