Belisha Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Robbins let slip that he had not been
sleeping well. He'd given up his room at the lodging house to a lady traveling by herself,
who'd come into Nowshera too tired to stand, when Nowshera was overrun and beds
impossible to find. When the lady left, the landlord had given the room to someone else,
leaving Mr. Robbins to sleep in rather atrocious places."
"Dear me," said Lady Vera.
"He didn't know it, but that lady was Mrs. Marsden. And I, for one, will always be grateful
that he helped her when there was absolutely nothing in it for him."
Lady Vera set down her tea. She reached forward and took Leo's hands. "Thank you, Mr.
Marsden. Sometimes I forget that beneath Michael's ambition, there is not a void, but much
kindness. Thank you for reminding me. — Sherry Thomas

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism. — Swami Vivekananda

The meeting would later be known as the Council of the Seven Eves. — Neal Stephenson

The depths of the self are the heights of God. — James Finley

I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone else, the extra degree of freedom that I found when I first found science fiction. — William Gibson

To be talented at one thing is better than to be average at many. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is. — Jennifer E. Smith

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. — W. Somerset Maugham

What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star. — Dan B. Allender

England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet. — Bill Bryson

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but - " are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. — Robert Benchley