Sir Quotes - page 27

Now, I'm very vulnerable to female beauty, as you know. Everybody's defenseless against something, and that's it for me. I see it and it blinds me to everything else. They come to my first class, and I know almost immediately which is the girl for me. There is a Mark Twain story in which he runs from a bull, and the bull looks up to him when he's hiding in a tree, and the bull thinks, "You are my meat, sir." (Philip Roth)
I have very strongly of late the wish that others may be as sensitive as myself and the fear that they will not be. Colleague Sir Frank Adcock stumped by the sunset-portent unheeding. And I can't arge that I gain, or that others would gain, anything for humanity by observing and recording what went on for a few moments in the sky on Boar Race evening. I sometimes pretend to myself that I am public-spirited. I am not. I am an hedonist who wants pleasant sensations. On the other hand I am not the usual type of hedonist, for I want sensations to be had. View quote
E. M. Forster
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Well, sir, you never can tell. Thats a principle in life with me, sir, if youll excuse my having such a thing. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
His motive-his motive is to change our policies, sir. Notwithstanding what the president or Mr. Kerry said during the campaign, he really doesn't give a darn about our democracy or our society. He is after a change in policies which he views as lethal to Muslims. View quote
Michael Scheuer
You know, I was born at night but not last night, sir. There is no operation at the CIA that is conducted without approval of lawyers. It is the bane of our existence, and it is a detriment to the defense of America, but, nonetheless, that is the fact. View quote
Michael Scheuer
Musharraf has bent over backwards, sir. Quite frankly, I would have bet my pension that Musharraf would not have done half of what he's done. He's done a tremendous amount for us. View quote
Michael Scheuer
Sir, a wise Government in its home policy considers the reasonable wants of the people; in its foreign policy, it is prepared to resist the unjust demands and the unreasonable views of foreign powers. View quote
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
James Burford, collier and fitter, was the oldest soldier of all. When I first spoke to him in the trenches, he said: "Excuse me, sir, will you explain what this here arrangement is on the side of my rifle?" "That's the safety catch. Didn't you do a musketry-course at the depôt?" "No, sir, I was a re-enlisted man, and I spent only a fortnight there. The old Lee-Metford didn't have no safety-catch." I asked him when he had last fired a rifle. "In Egypt in 1882," he said. "Weren't you in the South African War?" View quote
Robert Graves
That, my dear sir, or something not unlike, is what you could have said to me, had you the smallest leaven of letters or wit; but of wit, O most pitiable of objects made by God, you never had a rudiment, and of letters, you have just those that are needed to spell "fool!" View quote
Edmond Rostand
I will take my hands off Medicare when there is no Medicare, then I will come and see you sir. (Allen West (politician))
A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. View quote
George Borrow
There is, however, one car company that has never lost sight of its role in the marketplace. Rolls-Royce. Sir Henry Royce, who founded the company back in 1904, really was a one-man quote machine. "Strive for perfection in everything you do." "Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough." "The quality remains long after the price is forgotten." View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
Are you all right, sir? View quote
Orson Scott Card
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?" The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, "Yes!" View quote
Anthony de Mello
No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door And they say "We've got some bad news, sir." View quote
Regina Spektor
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus Have no anxiety about the morrow or the words of Sir William Osler Live in day-tight compartments. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir. View quote
Aphra Behn
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear. View quote
Eddie Izzard
I said I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation, and we find that most of the ancient legislators thought that they could not well reform the manners of any city without the help of a lyric, and sometimes of a dramatic poet. (Andrew Fletcher)
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health. View quote
Arthur Murphy
Wait,” Foyle commanded. He looked at the beaming grin engraved in the steel robot face. "But society can be so stupid. So confused. You've witnessed this conference.” "Yes, sir, but you must teach, not dictate. You must teach society.” "To space-jaunte? Why? Why reach out to the stars and galaxies? What for?” "Because you're alive, sir. You might as well ask: Why is life? Don't ask about it. Live it.” "Quite mad,” Dagenham muttered. "But fascinating,” Y'ang-Yeovil murmured. "There's got to be more to life than just living,” Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.” "Why can't we all move forward together?” "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow.” "Who leads?” "The men who must ... driven men, compelled men.” "Freak men.” "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.” "Thank you very much. View quote
Alfred Bester
But you will never catch Sir Oswald [Mosley] admitting to anti-Semitism. All he does is embody it. He talked of 'the use of Jewish money power to promote a world war.' Taxed on this point, he disclaimed anti-Semitism, by saying that he meant 'not all Jews, but some Jews.' That's as far as he will ever reduce his estimate. The truth, of course, is that the real number of Jews responsible for World War II was zero. View quote
Clive James
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him. View quote
Oscar Wilde