Gartered Stockings Quotes & Sayings

There seems to be a mountain of obstacles preventing people from being where their hearts want to be. It is so painful to watch and experience. The astonishing thing is that the battle for survival has become so "normal" that few people really believe that it can be different ... Oh how important is discipline, community, prayer, silence, caring presence, simple listening, adoration, and deep, lating faithful friendship. We all want it so much, and still the powers suggesting that all of that is fantasy are enormous. But we have to replace the battle for power with the battle to create space for the spirit. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

In the end I value literacy more highly than health; if our two countries were full of fat readers, rather than millions of Victoria Beckhams, then we would all be better off. — Nick Hornby

The future is needed as a space to project your desires. To project, future is needed. — Rajneesh

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint. — William Osler

But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved? — Kate Elliott

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess. — Ernst Gombrich

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers. — Bernard Berenson

People say we can't do anything about the way the world is; they say it's set in stone. I say it looks like stone, but it's mostly paint and cardboard. — Katherine Rundell

For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on. — Craig Kelly

Dave had been fun when they'd first dated. Then impending fatherhood had sobered him at the same time Mickle and Company had crooked its finger, turning him from Mr. Right to Mr. Wrong. — Cheryl Sterling

A good Traceur trains until he/she gets it right. An excellent Traceur trains until he/she cannot get it wrong. — David Belle

I stood in front of him in nothing but my shoes and gartered rose-silk stockings. — Diana Gabaldon

The future, for me, is romantic, I don't understand people who say the past is romantic. Romantic, for me, is something you don't know yet, something you can dream about, something unknown and mystical. That I find fascinating. — Raf Simons

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth. — F. Murray Abraham