Top 200 Stewart Stafford Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The tide of hope approaches us and recedes from us as we stand on the mortal shore – some of us wait for it to arrive, some chase after it, but we all vanish into the sunset and our footprints in the sand fade in time. The feet of infants replace ours, and the dance of the tide commences anew.”

— Stewart Stafford

102. “A hanging typically occurs after someone is found guilty in the eyes of the law and irredeemable in the eyes of society. A lynching is the killing of an individual for how they look and what they represent to a vigilante mob.”

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103. “The autocorrect on my phone must be a pacifist. Every time I type ″going to war″, it changes it to ″going to eat.″ Either that or it’s getting kickbacks from the local restaurants.”

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104. “Interstellar travel is like a flight to Australia on acid.”

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105. “Empires fall and drag their brands of civilization down with them.”

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106. “Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.”

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107. “Never enter the home of another with dust on your shoes and selfish expectations in your heart.”

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108. “Shock is when language and emotion get overwritten by trauma’s numbing code.”

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109. “When the hysteria of a witch-hunt is granted supremacy over the logic, values and spirit of the law, justice can only become a warped, alien concept in that society.”

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110. “Theology is a study of the series of disagreements that are the world’s religions. Atheism fundamentally disagrees with these disagreements that preceded it.”

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111. “Halloween is a celebration of the inversion of reality and a necessary Gothic hat-tip to the darker aspects of life, death and ourselves.”

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112. “Think logically, and you have a chance to solve a problem. Reacting emotionally to it prolongs and worsens your dilemma.”

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113. “Yes, we all die but there’s a tendency to focus on the end too much. Life can be a wondrous, sparkling comet trail that we leave in our wake for others to marvel at.”

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114. “A traitor only becomes one if their plot is discovered. The imposition of guilt means nothing to those who feign loyalty. More skilled conspirators wield treason as a clinical tool of regime change and political expediency. Then, with their own hand writing history, such traitors may wear the clothes of patriots.”

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115. “Do not weep for those who have found Death’s embrace early, for they weep for us that linger on in this mortal world of pain.”

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116. “Free will is never without charge and is costliest when an individual chooses selfishness and avarice over the common good. Some think animals dumb but mark the instinctive co-operation of insects while men murder and steal and tell me we are superior.”

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117. “Cats are unpredictable as they don’t know what they’re going to do next until they make it happen through nosiness, invention, acrobatics, and sheer force of will.”

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118. “Micro-managing creativity kills it. To encourage creative brilliance, foster an atmosphere where it can thrive and then step out of the way and let it happen.”

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119. “Questioning the morals, motives, and actions of a nation-state is not an expression of hatred for it or its predominant religion.”

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120. “If you play devil’s advocate with political correctness, you’ll get the horns – deliberate misinterpretation leading to you being fully demonized.”

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121. “Domineering-types may appear omnipotent but, inevitably, will smother everything they love and lose all.”

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122. “Reunions are the first day of school all over again. Time casts away familiarity and replaces it with warm confusion. Seeing how the years have frayed the friends of our youth reminds us that we too have irrevocably changed and can never return to a state of innocence again.”

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123. “Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper’s hibernation until Valentine’s Day.”

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124. “That knave would happily use a sextant to investigate his lineage and only tell the true Sun from a bastard.”

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125. “A man will never receive an invitation to participate in the secret relationships the woman in his life has with other females.”

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126. “There is a way of walking through rain without getting hit by a single drop – you just have to find what it is.”

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127. “Marriage is the Rubik’s Cube of the 21st Century – something young people are fascinated with but have no idea how to do.”

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128. “Imagination is one of the strongest tools we’ve got. Keep yours sharp by using it often.”

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129. “A superhero is just an ordinary person who has found a better way to mask their human frailties.”

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130. “Birthdays are happy as a child, defeatist with age and joyful again at surviving another year.”

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131. “Whether it’s personal foibles or a bureaucrat’s ego, the stubborn defence of stupidity is unforgivable.”

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132. “I read a report that said 88% of adults trust their doctors – well, 100% of dead people don’t!”

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133. “Going on stage always felt like being shot out of a cannon. My stomach would tighten as I got closer to the backstage area. You wondered why you put yourself through all the stress. Then BOOM! You’re on, adrenalin pumping, and thinking: “THIS is why I do it!”

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134. “Nature, with its paradoxical twin firmaments of breathtaking beauty and extreme cruelty, never explains itself and cares even less for our admiration and acceptance.”

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135. “Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability.”

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136. “Across a golden Autumn tapestry appear the spirits of our ancient selves demanding recognition and reward for one haunted night. Sated, they retreat from winter’s onslaught and retire to subconscious hibernation for another twelvemonth.”

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137. “If drinking alcohol gives people Dutch courage, then drinking coffee gives me Dutch energy.”

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138. “If someone threatens you for telling a joke, that’s all the more reason to tell it. Humour is the perfect antidote to fanaticism.”

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139. “A mistake is an experience, choice or concept it is necessary for us to have or make in order to evolve beyond it. Errors can be the launchpad of great ideas.”

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140. “People experience art as a transformative or even transcendent experience when it really only reflects back and awakens parts of them that are already there.”

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141. “You can tell you’re getting old when the heat blast from your birthday cake candles feels hotter than the surface of the sun.”

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142. “People say they don’t believe in luck: luck is the reason the dinosaurs got wiped out and why human beings became the new dominant species on this planet.”

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143. “The smart voter is politically-fluid in that they don’t rigidly believe that the same viewpoint, party manifesto or individual is the poultice for all maladies in every election. They attune themselves to the zeitgeist, search for potentially-reputable parties and candidates with suitable policies and cast their vote accordingly.”

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144. “What’s the difference between fact and opinion? Fact is the centre of the wheel and opinions are the myriad spokes emanating out from it.”

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145. “Closure is when raw memory blurs to become the folklore of life.”

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146. “They say that you’re not the same person once you get married on your wedding day. On your wedding night, however, you’re definitely not feeling yourself anymore.”

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147. “Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.”

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148. “When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”

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149. “No one gets out of this world alive... except astronauts.”

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150. “Truth is the crossroads of perspective.”

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