Duylucthien Quotes & Sayings

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. — Brian Blessed

We are not at the mercy of events that transpired in our childhood unless we believe we are. — Lynn Grabhorn

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think it's always easier to play parts that you have something concrete that you can relate to. — Hayley Atwell

I think it mercy if Thou wilt forget. — John Donne

Saying goodbye to something or someone after that long of a time, even if it brought you pain and misery, is hard. It's like living with a gangrene foot. You know you need to just whack it off and you'll be healthier for it. But damn if you don't feel some sort of emptiness when your decaying foot is gone. You look at the end of your leg expecting to see it there in all black and rotting but there's just nothing but air now. — Karina Halle

I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better. — Rebecca Goldstein

Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come. — C.S. Lewis

Time was just a hangover from the past with no present meaning — Norman Maclean

Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life. — Jeremy Lin

I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order. — Sally Brampton