Edensor Hills Quotes & Sayings

To decide what the best use of it is, you must ask what use the Enemy wants to make of it, and then do the opposite. — C.S. Lewis

A pattern is an idea that has been useful in one practical context and will probably be useful in others. — Martin Fowler

Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. — Elisha Gray

And you never saw anything at all?" asked Tim. Clive shook his head and shrugged again. "Not up there. And we've been up there every night for two years. Debbie even studies up there sometimes. — Peter Clines

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. — Henry Villard

I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush. — Abbi Glines

I recounted. I rechecked.
Are you going to cock? — David Levithan

I am a realist. I expect miracles. — Wayne Dyer

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement ... — Andre Agassi

Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead. — Adelaide Crapsey

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness. — Samuel Johnson

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. — Steven Spielberg

Aeronautics did not lead to democracy, unless budget airlines count. — Julian Barnes