Charnock Road Quotes & Sayings

We're peculiar," he replied, sounding a bit puzzled. "Aren't you? — Ransom Riggs

If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. — Irvin D. Yalom

Respect the woman, desire the slut, and cherish the little girl. Then you have the mind, body and soul. By Unknown — Ella Dominguez

Home is a place to get out of the rain
It cradles the hurt and mends the pain
And no one cares about your name
Or the height of your head
Or the size of your brain — Liesl Shurtliff

And indeed nothing had happened, a momentous nothing, just another of the great world's shrugs of indifference. — John Banville

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth. — Katherine Cecil Thurston

Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further, many of the students here had arrived without academic credentials in mathematics or music, de rigueur for entry to the other Athenian schools of higher learning. Everyone in the Garden radiated earnestness and good cheer. The subject under discussion was happiness. — Epicurus

Contrast is the intangible ingredient, the catalyst that makes life exciting. The human mind rejects monotony even to the point of destroying itself in madness, when monotony is forced upon it for too long ... Contrast gives variety and interest, whether it be in the universe as a whole with its light and darkness, its ceaseless motion and constant change, its creation of worlds and destruction of others ... — Maren Elwood

For some of us, "chauvinism" is simply a shortening of "male chauvinism." For others, it is a reminder of the dangers of devotion to the superiority of any group, gender, race, religion, or nation, or even to the truths of any era. — Mary Catherine Bateson

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. — Joseph Conrad

Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last, you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that Don Quixote could do. — Martin Amis