Amalgamations Repco Quotes & Sayings

I mean now to try and see her as soon as I can: or perhaps, on second thoughts, I had better not; it is better I should behold her through the eyes of her lover. To my sight, perhaps, she would not appear as she now stands before me; and why should I destroy so sweet a picture? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can't lie now and say my eyes didn't scan it for any rips. — Khaled Hosseini

In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity. — Eddie Izzard

A leader knows it's not so hard to die for your people. It's hard to order your people to die for you. And leading with certainty in an uncertain future doesn't require sight. It requires vision. It requires holding on. And no matter what happens, never letting go. — Paul Jenkins

On solemn festivals, Julian, who felt and professed an unfashionable dislike to these frivolous amusements, condescended to appear in the Circus; and, after bestowing a careless glance on five or six of the races, he hastily withdrew with the impatience of a philosopher, who considered every moment as lost that was not devoted to the advantage of the public or the improvement of his own mind. — Edward Gibbon

When you decide you deserve to have what you want, you will wait on it. — Dorethia Conner Kelly

Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true. — Lemony Snicket

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life. — Ralph Marston

He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young. — Charles Dickens

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different. — Phil Daniels

Never choose to be a worker, but once God has placed His call upon you, woe be to you if you "turn aside . . . to the right or the left . . ." (Deuteronomy 28:14). He will do with you what He never did before His call came to you, and He will do with you what He is not doing with other people. Let Him have His way. — Oswald Chambers

The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together. — Cassandra Clare

The line storm clouds fly tattered and swift,
The road is forlorn all day, ... — Robert Frost