Bruichladdich Classic Laddie Quotes & Sayings

One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves. — Gloria Steinem

You are never alone when lost in a good book. — C.J. Lyons

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own. — Kate Mosse

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. — Johann Caspar Lavater

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?"
"Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me."
"Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd. — Robert B. Parker

We're a shifty, sliding population ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name. — Barbara Holland

I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write — Katherine Mansfield

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. — Barbara Castle

What did Trotsky say? "I need Stalin like I need a hole in the head. — Anonymous

The creatures are always accusing one another of wanting 'to eat the cake and have it'; but thanks to our labours they are more often in the predicament of paying for the cake and not eating it. — C.S. Lewis

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay. — Rebecca Solnit

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen. — Holly Goldberg Sloan

Should you ever feel too lonely ... listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come. — Simon Van Booy