Americanisms And Britishisms Quotes & Sayings

The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until a tolerable civil social order is attained, nor can freedom be anything better than violence until order gives us laws. — Russell Kirk

To me, all those jobs I did [roles] have been amazing experiences for one reason or another. I got paid and I learned something. I think that's what helped me carry on because I've never really given out that energy of, "oh, I've lost my chance" or missed it in some way. — Gerard Butler

Wallace would have none of it. In reviewing The Descent of Man he wrote, 'Are we to believe that the actions of an ever varying fancy for a slight change of colour could produce and fix the definite colours and markings which actually characterise species?' Furthermore, he said, it was unacceptable to suggest that birds had an aesthetic sense. That would be crediting a bird with a human characteristic for which there was no evidence. It would be anthropomorphism at its most unjustified. — David Attenborough

Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
He cultivates. — William Cowper

And if I had a camera
Showing all the light we give
And showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friends — Dar Williams

The pike does not ask the frog's permission before dining. — Robert Jordan

For my friends do not desert me, and life stays; for those two things I must be grateful. — John Edward Williams

Your empowerment remains Soulfully supported from within. — Eleesha

Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator! — Hunter S. Thompson

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him. — Chris Abani

We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves. — Watchman Nee