Dover Beach Poem Quotes & Sayings

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working. — Michael Bond

There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must. — Ambrose Bierce

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed. — A. J. Jacobs

I did a TV movie with Tom Cavanaugh. He was the perfect partner, I learned so much from him. I would do anything with him again. — Ashley Williams

I suppose all this sounds very crazy - all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken - only felt and endured. — L.M. Montgomery

Hey, Finnick, come on in! We figured out how to make you pretty again! — Suzanne Collins

When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation. — Randall Jarrell

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention. — Charles Spurgeon

I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty. — Toussaint Louverture

For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest. — Zooey Deschanel

I hear nothing but the sound of my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces, each smaller than a single grain of sand. — Carrie Anne Noble

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens. — Grover Cleveland

That is what you said! You think you can just pay me to talk to your friend? Clearly you pay most of your female companions by the hour and don't know how it works with the real world, but ... but.." Blue remembered that she was working to a point, but not what that point was. Indignation had eliminated all higher functions and all that remained was the desire to slap him. The boy opened his mouth to protest, and her thought came back to her all in a rush. "Most girls, when they're interested in a guy, will sit them with for free . — Maggie Stiefvater

And yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; — Edgar Rice Burroughs

I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves. — Andy Serkis