Carpeted Living Quotes & Sayings

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it. — Simone Weil

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme. — Evan Davis

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser. — Gordon Gould

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention. — Charles R. Swindoll

After my bedroom, this was my favourite place in the world. It was carpeted, and had heavy bookcases and ticking clocks and velvet chairs, just like someone's living room. It smelled of unturned pages and unseen adventures, and on every shelf were people I had yet to meet, and places I had yet to visit. Each time, I lost myself in the corridors of books and the polished, wooden rooms, deciding which journey to go on next. Mrs — Joanna Cannon

There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade. — Edgar Allan Poe

Everything smells like mildew, and the grim commitment to filth that can only be cultivated by post-adolescent boys. — Brenna Yovanoff