Halswell Quotes & Sayings

So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh ... And then in due course, he wanted a brother, and then I thought, 'Oh, that'll be bloody lucky!' So, we ended up adopting a beautiful boy who was then five years old, from Ethiopia. — Geraldine Brooks

The silence between them was dark water. He could not cross it. He couldn't walk the line between the decency she deserved and the violence this path demanded. If he tried, it might get them both killed. He could only be who he truly was--a boy who had no comfort to offer. So he would give her what he could. — Leigh Bardugo

What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two? — Terrence Malick

Twenty two year old Connie Jones, who had boarded in the home of charismatic Methodist and pacifist Ormond Burton, was a member of the No More War movement and the Christian Pacifist Society. She first attended the Friday night public meetings at which the pacifists argued their case in 1941. She stepped onto the podium, stating, "the Lord Jesus Christ tells us to love one another," and was promptly arrested by Wellington's chief inspector of police. Charged with obstruction under the Emergency Regulations, she was sentenced to three months' hard labour with harsh conditions at the Point Halswell Reformatory - an experience that did nothing to dampen her commitment to pacifism. — Barbara Brookes

I've met dozens of officers who think their immaculate mustache can move the world. — Brian McClellan

We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter
exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place
the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan. — Mark Twain

The bittersweet side of appreciating life's most precious moments is the unbearable awareness that those moments are passing. — Marc Parent

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. — Francis Beaumont

CEOs believe that the most important skill needed to navigate today's complex business world is creativity. — Emma Seppala

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. — Nathaniel Smith

War ... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from. — Gerry Adams

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations
fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. — Tobias Wolff

Why the hell does luck exist if I'm not supposed to push it? I — Colleen Hoover

He doesn't know he doesn't always. — Stephen King

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly. — Julie Delpy