Alan Alexander Milne Quotes & Sayings

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them. — Thomas Carlyle

In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them. — Larry Trask

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy. — Stephen Colletti

There are liasons which would put yours in the shade ... — Hilary Mantel

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact. — Dan Quisenberry

If you're in Australia and you're into technology, Yow! is a no-brainer, but I am going to sing their praises anyway. I've never been so humbled to meet another speaker, or so honored to be in the presence of an conference organizer, as I have been with Yow! It's not just impressive. It's a reason to go to Australia. — Mike Lee

It's about time that society accepts people for who they are. — Kesha

BEAST is very happy because of B2UTIES.. Thank you those who love and care for us.. — Yoseob

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing she did
or said
was quite
what she meant
but still her life
could be called a monument
shaped in a slant
of available light
and set to the movement
of possible music — Carol Shields

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special. — Garrison Keillor