Gytha Mander Quotes & Sayings

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson. — Michael Gove

I have some scars ... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over. — Chaka Khan

I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods. — Richard Hovey

The chili I ate made for an explosive bathroom experience. I don't know how to put this delicately, but I missed the toilet entirely. — Seth Green

We're going to be there for every inning. Not just the peaks and valleys. — Dee Henderson

I wondered if my life was going to be one immersion after another, a great march of shallow, unpopular popular culture infatuations that don't really last and don't really mean anything. Sometimes I even think maybe my deepest obsessions are just random manifestations of my loneliness or isolation. Maybe I infuse ordinary experience with a kind of sacred aura to mitigate the spiritual vapidity of my life ... no, it is beautiful to be enraptured. To be enthralled by something, anything. And it isn't random. It speaks to you for a reason. If you wanted to, you could look at it that way, and you might find you aren't wasting your life. You are discovering things about yourself and the world, even if it is just what you find beautiful, right now, this second. — Dana Spiotta

There was a time when his father had looked like gold to him. Many of his seniors had looked like gold. Anybody who had attained a certain high level of education had looked like gold. Therefore, his own gold plating had been all the more painful, and he had been impatient to become solid gold himself. But once his keen eye penetrated directly to the inner layers of these other people, his efforts suddenly came to seem foolish. — Soseki Natsume

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought. — Jon Tester

It took 139 years to find her and only a few precious days to lose her, so if leaving was the right thing to do, shouldn't it be easier than this? — Georgia Cates

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid. — Anne Lamott

President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet. — Maureen Dowd

The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to this? Let the philosopher no longer disdain from listening to the common laborer; the wise, to the simple; the educated, to the illiterate; a child of a prince, to a peasant. — Anthony Of Padua

I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard? — Elisabeth Shue