Sturdiness Quotes

#1. Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?"
"Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

Khaled Hosseini

#3. Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

Ernest Bevin

#4. A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Sturdiness, wariness, fatigue, but also an energy or glow
something like the center of a low flame, Is this what they call charisma? I do not know, exactly, except to say that Warm was more THERE than the average man.

Patrick DeWitt

#6. American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm

Stephen King

#7. There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Love before faction.

Veronica Roth

#9. Wanting someone else to eat the things you have cooked is the same as wanting that person to know you.
I figured eating your own cooking is a way of getting to know yourself.

CLAMP

#10. For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Arthur Miller

#11. Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.

Patricia Cornwell

#12. I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

Harold Pinter

#13. What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

Gautama Buddha