Gorter Roof Quotes & Sayings

Character is much easier kept than recovered. — Thomas Paine

As long as one asserts oneself and is true to oneself. — Jeanne Moreau

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things
praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts
not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. — C.S. Lewis

I kind of liked the idea of a universe that always was and always will be. — Robert Woodrow Wilson

But no. No. He may have boarded this bad idea train, but now it was time to derail it. — Elle Kennedy

If you have to choose between 'travelling in an ugly road to a beautiful place' and 'travelling in a beautiful road to an ugly place,' choose the second! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. — Brian Selznick

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide. — John Colville

I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob. — Henry James