Averyburies Quotes & Sayings

The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War. — Jill Lepore

Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level. — Joel Robuchon

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear. — James Joyce

Uncle Jihad used to say that what happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of those events affect us. My father and I may have shared numerous experiences, but, as I was constantly finding out, we rarely shared their stories; we din't know how to listen to one another. — Rabih Alameddine

COINCIDENCE You weren't playing attention to the other half of what was going on. — John Brunner

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. — William Ellery Channing

The way we assess time as humans determines what we become — Sunday Adelaja

The profound divergences of opinion on war and peace had been shown to know no sex. — Sylvia Pankhurst

Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself. — Lynn Cullen

I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic. — Alexander McCall Smith