Geordie Outlander Quotes & Sayings

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world. — Bill Russell

A Prayer does not need to become a ritual. — Sunday Adelaja

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding. — Geoff Mulgan

(The main advantage of books over life is that they can be redrafted and redrafted, whereas life, alas, is always a first draft.) — Matt Haig

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught. — Frances Hardinge

The insurance companies involved had all claimed that this was, by any reasonable standards, an act of God. But, Dirk had argued, which god? Britain was constitutionally a Christian monotheistic state, and therefore any "act of God" defined in a legal document must refer to the Anglican chap in the stained glass and not to some polytheistic thug from Norway. — Douglas Adams

Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring. — Ross Macdonald

Live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning. — Jeanette Winterson

And what if it's a trap?" asked Mallinson, but Barnard supplied an answer. "A nice warm trap," he said, "with a piece of cheese in it, would suit me down to the ground. — James Hilton

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. — Anne Enright

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer. — Mark Hoppus

For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. — Francis Bacon

Life itself is the journey of the mind toward the unknown infinite wilderness. Get lost. — Debasish Mridha