English Colonist Quotes & Sayings

The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand. But possibly this is how I am expected to react. If I have an egg, what more can I want? In — Margaret Atwood

When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity. — Michael Eisen

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time. — Robert Gibbs

Dude, this transcends politics. George W. Bush is wiping his ass with the Constitution. — Kenneth Eade

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. — Alfred Eisenstaedt

Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be. — Jacob Gelt Dekker

Betrayal of yourself in order not to betray another is betrayal nonetheless. It is the highest betrayal. — Neale Donald Walsch

We are but older children, dear,
Who fret to find our bedtime near. — Lewis Carroll

Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. — Oliver Cromwell

He doesn't talk. Except to me. Doesn't smile. Except for me. Doesn't go to dances. Except for me. This is the refrain of our song. He's different with me, and yet I know this is the real Bodee. He's not pretending anymore. — Courtney C. Stevens

What good is it Habiba, to deny the truth? Your friendship woke something in me all those centuries ago, some dormant humanity that had lingered through the years, and after you died, it recoiled and hid again.
But Aladdin has woken it once more. With his sun-bright smile and his laughing eyes and his way of asking the hardest kind of questions. After you, I swore to never love again.
But I love him.
And so I must let him go. — Jessica Khoury

Between one heartbeat and the next, a man can dream his entire life; tomorrow will open up in front of him and yesterday will retreat into time's abyss. There is no better place for personal memories than obscurity. Once lived, the past has very little value. And yet we carry its lifeless body into all future moments, allowing it to crush us with its weight, to identify us, and to speak for us. Even the most capable adults seem reluctant to make a decision without first consulting the past - the corpse - and listening to its endless rebukes. A wise man will ignore such counsel and observe the world from an infinite perspective. — Miguel Ruiz