Heathfield Junior Quotes & Sayings

While I understand the mother believes what she is saying, I cannot believe the statement to be true for her young child. Hence the book. — May Saubier

By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual — Jeremy Bentham

No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're walking along the street, as a really bad analogy, you step on a little stone, and it just kind of flies away and you have no idea where it's going. And then you are just trying not to drown afterwards. And that's my life. See, that was really terrible. — Robert Pattinson

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Worship has a two-fold aspect ... we lift Him up and exalt Him, and as a result are drawn into His presence where He speaks to us. — John Wimber

In the shop we buy & sell them, but in truth books have no owner. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement. — Frances Trollope

For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. — Dan Brown

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. — George Bernard Shaw

Istening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts. — Robert L. Wise