Damask Greenway Quotes & Sayings

The mystery of death is why it chooses a particular moment. With no earthly answer, coincidence can become conspiracy. — Mitch Albom

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it. — Florence Nightingale

Never forget this: It's easier to change your mind and emotions by taking action than it is to change your actions by trying to think and feel differently. — Stephen Guise

The key 'subtle influences' were enumerated as: the rise of the city over the countryside, the loss of Britons' maritime skills, the growth of refinement and luxury, the absence of literary taste, the decline of the physical form of Britons, the decay of the country's religious life, excessive taxation, false systems of education and, finally, the inability of the British to defend their empire. — Charles Emmerson

It is always exciting when you find someone who is really enthusiastic about being half of a comedy team. — Seth Rogen

In a technologically rich society, it is easy to forget. With everything made and packaged in plastic and ready to eat, within a couple of generations even an activity as basic as knowing how to cook your own dinner becomes a fundamental threat to survival. — Victor L. Machin

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. — Thomas Hardy

Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why — Kamand Kojouri

It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer, something quite out of the ordinary about her mind. Most people had minds which dealt with one thought, and then another, one at a time. Hers very often dealt with two, even three, all at the same time.
Damask Greenway from Afternoon of an Autocrat — Norah Lofts