Cornwall Famous Quotes & Sayings

Surrender is a choice, it is never a calling. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Grumph let out a harrumph, which indicated either that he was unharmed and waiting patiently for a new opportunity to arise, or that a sparrow had shit in his porridge. — Drew Hayes

Especially threatening, therefore, are the industrious, independent, and successful, for they demonstrate what is actually possible under current societal conditions - achievement, happiness, and fulfillment - thereby contradicting and endangering the utopian campaign against what was or is. They must be either co-opted and turned into useful contributors to or advocates for the state, or neutralized through sabotage or other means. Indeed, the individual's contribution to society must be downplayed, dismissed, or denounced, unless the contribution is directed by the state and involves self-sacrifice for the utopian cause. — Mark R. Levin

The lure of the past came up to grab me. To see a dagger slowly appearing, with its gold glint, through the sand was romantic. The carefulness of lifting pots and objects from the soil filled me with a longing to be an archaeologist myself. — Agatha Christie

I'm the worst kind of criminal."
"And what kind is that?"
"The kind that got caught. — Brandon Mull

Politicians look for interests not people — Bangambiki Habyarimana

A mind too active is no mind at all. — Theodore Roethke

Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know. — Peter Morville

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary. — Bill Whittle

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it. — Drake Bell

When your team scores one run, it's common sense that you have to hold the other team to no runs. — Hiroki Kuroda

You think that fairytales are not true, but life itself is the most magical and mysterious fairytale. — Debasish Mridha

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary. — Tim O'Brien