Counry Quotes & Sayings

When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk ... And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts. — Kazuo Ishiguro

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious. — James Dashner

Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced. — Amby Burfoot

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. — Mahatma Gandhi

By the sun and its brightness
And [by] the moon when it follows it
And [by] the day when it displays it
And [by] the night when it covers it
And [by] the sky and He who constructed it
And [by] the earth and He who spread it
And [by] the soul and He who proportioned it
And inspired it [with discernment of] its wickedness and its righteousness,
He has succeeded who purifies it,
And he has failed who instills it [with corruption]. — Anonymous

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel's nature into us. — Frederick William Faber

All I wanted,' London said later, 'was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don't know it. — Jack London

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death. — Irving Stone

Lack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death. — Alan Watts

The fights they had now were much worse. Isabella had never fought like this with anyone before. With Ben, she had all-out, drunken marathon fights that lasted for hours. She was sure the neighbors thought they were crazy. — Jennifer Close

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. — Henry A. Kissinger

If you're being attacked from all sides, it's possible you're doing something right; it's also possible that you are doing everything wrong. — Adam Gopnik

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. — Douglas Adams

Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive; bad leaders sacrifice others to survive — Saji Ijiyemi

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. — Gertrude Stein