Chawton Hampshire Quotes & Sayings

Is not light grander than fire? — Thomas Carlyle

I am reading Ian Rankins book Doors Open and am enjoying his dark Edinburgh narrative will rate soon once I have read it. I am also a fan of Jane Austen and have visited her Museum House in Chawton, Hampshire every year for the last three years. My Favourite book is Sense and Sensibility. — Ian Rankin

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? — John Belushi

Don't you understand what I've done?" Caine asked. "I've gone against everything I believe in. And for what? You? — Jennifer Estep

Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for good ends, perverted to bad purposes. — Martin Van Buren

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all. — Angelique Kidjo

Something had happened to his entire body that was very much like what happens to the erectile tissue of his organ when a man is sexually aroused. It increases marvellously in size, no matter what the man wants to happen. It goes from something flaccid and secret to becoming a kind of weapon. — Anne Rice

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item on the list clashes with any other item, Rumi warned, you are destined for unhappiness. Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught. But what about the benefits of living harmoniously among extremes? What if you could somehow create an expansive enough life that you could synchronize seemingly incongruous opposites into a worldview that excludes nothing? — Elizabeth Gilbert

My wretched dragon is perplexed. — W.B.Yeats

Nobody can tell what tomorrow brings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven — Sunday Adelaja

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key. — Paul Valery

And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you. — Dallin H. Oaks