Croissanteria Quotes & Sayings

What the day brings is one thing, what we ourselves contribute to the day is quite another — Jose Saramago

The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me ... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink. — Frank Dobson

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ... — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream. — Miranda Hart

When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for a while. — Woody Allen

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. — Christopher Paolini

The arrival of the Barbary pirates radically changed English attitudes. Instead of patriotic pirates plundering foreign cargoes and bringing them homes to enrich their countrymen, the 'Turks' were in the usual Mediterranean business of slave-raiding - and now the English were the victims. The West Country men suffered the heaviest, and did not appreciate the irony. The Newfoundland fishery, dominated by Devon ports, lost at least 20 ships in 1611 alone. — Nicholas Rodger