Christopher Strachey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  • I'm all alone. There has been no man in my life for several months now and although it would be nice to have a boyfriend, I can't just settle for anybody. The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

  • Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

  • There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

  • Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

  • Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.

  • Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

  • Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

  • For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

  • There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

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