Ambushed Salon Quotes & Sayings

A magpie flies like a frying pan!'8 he could write, with the joy of discovering something new in the world. And it is that joy, that childish delight in the lives of creatures other than man, that I love most in White. He was a complicated man, and an unhappy one. But he knew also that the world was full of simple miracles. — Helen Macdonald

It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking. — Gregory Maguire

I'll never forget where I'm from, never forget my roots. It doesn't matter where I live. I'm English, simple as that. — David Beckham

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.

{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine} — H.N. Brailsford

Does it ever stop, Claire? The wanting? — Diana Gabaldon

Andy Johnson is quick, brave and strong and he will get goals, — Iain Dowie

Someone's attention shouldn't have a physical weight, but it does. Hate's a heavy burden; hope is worse. — Josin L. McQuein

And if we believe that God is everywhere, why should we not think Him present even in the coincidences that sometimes seem so strange? For, if He be in the things that coincide, He must be in the coincidence of those things. — George MacDonald