Calpurnia Motherly Quotes & Sayings

E.M. Forster, who said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying his friend, he hoped he'd have the courage to betray his country. — Robert B. Parker

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. — Norman Vincent Peale

Reading is a rendezvous with your soul. — Jeanette Winterson

I'd rather be a nodding acquaintance, than a bobble head — Josh Stern

The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere. — Raymond Aron

Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so. — Shelby Lynne

I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it. — Angela Carter

A WILD, MAD, HILARIOUS AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING TALE IT IS VERY DIFFICULT to classify The Man Who Was Thursday. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, The Man Who Was Thursday succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing. However, — G.K. Chesterton