Gowbarrow Quotes & Sayings

Alyosha, was not at all a fanatic, and, in my view at least, even not at all a mystic. I will give my full opinion beforehand: he was simply an early lover of mankind,1 and if he threw himself into the monastery path, it was only because it alone struck him at the time and presented him, so to speak, with an ideal way out for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness towards the light of love. And this path struck him only because on it at that time he met a remarkable being, in his opinion, our famous monastery elder Zosima, to whom he became attached with all the ardent first love of his unquenchable heart. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When army review its forces more than 6 months and not attacking the enemy, know it is a danger to his people — Adolf Hitler

Why don't you read the Holy Bible? — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a cruel man to myself. — Duncan Jones

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were more and yet more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a county turnpike toad. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew about the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake. — Dorothy Wordsworth

I am now pretty far advanced in life, and all my views are center'd in the Happiness and well-fare of my children; you will therefore find from me every Indulgence which you have a right to expect from an affectionate Parent. — George Mason

Pea Eye loped up and unfolded himself in the direction of the ground. "Your getting off a horse reminds me of an old crane landing in a mud puddle," Augustus said. — Larry McMurtry

Forgiveness is negative. Righteousness is positive. Forgiveness is you may go. Righteousness is you may come. — Timothy Keller

I just have to express myself somehow, either through singing, dance or fitness. You get sick of it; you have days where you think you don't want to do it, but generally after I've done something, I feel better. That's why I do the exercise: to earn my bar of chocolate and cappuccino. — Bonnie Langford

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs. — Hans Koning

The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that. — Daoud Hari

The commercialism may wash off sometime later. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Like most bookworms I read so as not to be alone, which often annoys those who are trying to make conversation with me. — Jonathan Hull

If we are unable to download, remember us. — Arthur C. Clarke

Our bedraggled heads peeped from the water like bobbing apples just waiting to be eaten, as Magwart prowled the shore. — S.L. Mills

It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. — Robert Breault