Attfields Farm Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards. — Abhishek Ratna

A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair. — Mark Zuckerberg

Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?"
For the first time Kate looked flustered. — Kenneth Oppel

The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog. — Christopher Hitchens

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation. — George Bernard Shaw

It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief. — Nathan Hale

corner of the Green Park and Piccadilly, Maria knew — Julian Fellowes

I know I come off as a little too optimistic, because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were. But then again, can what we all went through really just go away? I once heard an African proverb, "One cannot cross a river without getting wet." I'd like to believe that. — Max Brooks

Australopithecus. — Richelle Mead

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season. — Bill Buford

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. — Bronislaw Huberman