Barsetshire Books Quotes & Sayings

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events. — Gerda Lerner

She shielded her eyes with a salute to the afternoon sun. "Right there, where the ground is blackened, just to the left of that cloud, that's where the Presidential Palace stood." Rotating in a slow circle, her index finger pressed the past into the empty panorama. The market selling Levi's two decades before any licensed clothing store. The music college, where some years earlier a prodigy had learned to play the viola by listening to the two-hundred-year history of chamber music lilting through those open windows. She reconstructed the square for Akhmed - her voice raised every edifice from the dust, replanted every linden tree - because that was easier than apology. — Anthony Marra

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher. — William James

I found the guy! After more than twenty years of being single and jerked around and cheated on and alone, I found my soul mate. Pardon my French, but you think I give a shit about the flowers? — Lauren Weisberger

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence. — Frank Herbert

I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog. — Victoria Pratt

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family. — Edith Wharton

The panic, a voice in the distance -loud enough to hear, but quiet enough to ignore. — Samantha Schutz

I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. — Lindsey Graham

Truth is the strongest weapon against the darkness of lies! EL — Evinda Lepins

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. — John Taylor Gatto

I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere. — Zarin Mehta

Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind. — Tim Berners-Lee

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. — George Meredith

I probably bring four dresses on the road and rotate those. I always wear something light when I go onstage because I move around a whole lot. It's a sweaty business. — Brittany Howard