S. N. Parker Quotes

Greatness is its own torment.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

No man is so great as mankind.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

The most useful is the greatest.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game.

We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz.

Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.

Should they whisper false of you, Never trouble to deny; Should the words they say be true, Weep and storm and say they lie.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

If I had any decency, I'd be dead. Most of my friends are.

Travel, trouble, music, art, a kiss, a frock, a rhyme -- I never said they feed my heart, but still they pass my time.

For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels.... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

Because your eyes are slant and slow, Because your hair is sweet to touch, My heart is high again; but oh, I doubt if this will get me much.

Hell's afloat in lover's tears.

Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.

If I should labor through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, Then on the world I may blazon my mark; And what if I don't, and what if I do?

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

On being told of the death of former President Calvin Coolidge: How could they tell?

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

If you see yourself reflected in art, you feel validated.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

There is no influence like the influence of habit.