Aberfan Wales Quotes & Sayings

Do you know, I am putting off ending this letter as though the end would be the end of something I want to hold on to. That's not true of course - just a feeling like the quick one of hexing your trip so you couldn't go. The mind is capable of any selfishness and it thinks unworthy things whether you want it or not. Best to admit it is a bad child rather than to pretend it is always a good one. Because a bad child can improve but a good one is a liar and nothing can improve a liar. — John Steinbeck

Writers should be proud of the fact that they can do something that 99% of the public will never be able to do. You'll hear many, many people say to you, 'I think I'd like to write a book one day'. They won't. Because they haven't. — Stevyn Colgan

Every time we do something # GOOD . We # RISE a little bit in our OWN eyes and the # REVERSE is just as # TRUE . — Shiv Khera

(One of the best-kept secrets of "country life" is that people accidentally crush their own pets a lot.) The — Tina Fey

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done. — N. Scott Momaday

of wrongdoing and rightdoing, — Khaled Hosseini

I don't like to spend time in endless meetings talking about stuff that isn't going to get anything done. I have meetings, but they're short, prompt and to the point. — Eli Broad

I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to properly equip me for my culinary apprenticeship. — Daniel Humm

He threw one long, leather-clad leg over the couch arm and slithered over it to his feet. It was like watching a lap dance without a lap. To my knowledge, Jean-Claude had never stripped at Guilty Pleasures, the vampire strip club he owned, but he could have. He had a way of making even the smallest movement sexual and vaguely obscene. You always felt like he was thinking wicked thoughts, things you couldn't say in mixed company. — Laurell K. Hamilton

A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal. — Richard Preston

That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron. — Aldous Huxley