Cotswold Company Quotes & Sayings

Happy the people whose annals are boring to read. — Charles-Louis De Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying. — Gregg Braden

The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air. — George D. Prentice

Amid all the bangs and the drama and the grand passions, it's kindness and just ordinary goodness that stands out in the end. — Grant Morrison

O Light divine! we need no fuller test That all is ordered well; We know enough to trust that all is best Where Love and Wisdom dwell. — Christopher Pearse Cranch

More wine helps; it takes the edge off the despair. — Garth Stein

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. — Alexander Hamilton

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. — Rudolf Rocker

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. — Hanoi Hannah

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. — Natalie Goldberg

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly. — Junot Diaz

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. — Jeremy Rifkin

It was disgusting and terrific all at the same time. — Tess Oliver

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it. — Matthew Macfadyen