ricky gervais golden globes quotes

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XV "Hester and Pearl"


Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans. ~Martin H. Fischer


We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them. ~Author Unknown


We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. ~Author Unknown


The last time I opened my chakra so I could feel my peace, I got thrown right out of the pub. ~Terri Guillemets


Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. ~W.H. Auden, A Certain World


Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin


As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. ~Virginia Woolf


And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet. ~Terri Guillemets


It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. ~Norman Lear


I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln


A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White


There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. ~Samuel Johnson


Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. ~William James


My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy


The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~Martin H. Fischer


Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe


In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously. ~Neville Cardus, Cardus on the Ashes, 1989


Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960