Florence Chadwick Quotes & Sayings

On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men. — Theodore Roosevelt

Of all tales 'tis the saddest
and more sad, Because it makes us smile. — Lord Byron

An open mind is not an empty one. — Roger Fisher And William Ury Of The Harvard Negotiation Project

Let me write it down, quite unambiguously: paper could cut me open as a paper knife slits paper. I'd like to meet the person who could make a new woman of me out of the things I say. — Elfriede Jelinek

Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation's historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: All I want in life is to be able to get a take-away pizza! — Julia Stuart

they had become almost used to these coincidences that could not possibly be coincidences, to the feeling that each one was the click of some great turning cog. — Stephen King

You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging. — Ricky Gervais

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, 'Godfather I' and 'Godfather II,' and 'Lonesome Dove.' — Robert Duvall

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it! — Robert Musil

As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets. — Moshe Sharett

You say "hold to your values" at the same time you say our values are all wrong. Help me with this. I have not said your values are wrong. But neither are they right. They are simply judgments. Assessments. Decisions. For the most part, they are decisions made not by you, but by someone else. Your parents, perhaps. Your religion. Your teachers, historians, politicians. Very few of the value judgments you have incorporated into your truth are judgments you, yourself, have made based on your own experience. — Neale Donald Walsch

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. — Adam Smith