Ceciley Williams Quotes & Sayings

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The only war is the war against the imagination. — Diane Di Prima

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way. — Lewis Thomas

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics. — Nic Fields

It seemed impossible that a modern airport, full of prosperous and purposeful travellers, was only kilometres away from those crushed and cindered dreams. My first impression was that some catastrophe had taken place, and that the slums were refugee camps for the shambling survivors. I learned, months later, that they were survivors, of course, those slum-dwellers: the catastrophes that had driven them to the slums from their villages were poverty, famine, and bloodshed. And five thousand new survivors arrived in the city every week, week after week, year after year. As the kilometres wound — Gregory David Roberts

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves. — T-Pain

Nothing lasts forever. Everything is fleeting. And yet, that's the very reason that life has meaning. When things cost effort to gain and are finite they are of value. — Sarah Noffke

When you put ungodly people in office you put ungodly principles in office. God can't bless ungodly principles therefore God can't bless you for promoting ungodly principles. If you put Godly people in office you put Godly in office God can bless Godly principles therefore he can bless you for promoting Godly principles. — David Barton

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. — William Blackstone

One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something. — David N. Perkins

Sometime ... there should be outburst of words to avoid complication. — Upasana Banerjee

That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person. — Michael Caine

My trouble is that my intelligence is materialistic, agnostic, pessimistic and solitary, while my heart is incurably tender, romantic, loving and gregarious. — T.H. White