Highwaymans Quotes & Sayings

It is a curious fact, and makes life very interesting, that, generally speaking, none of us have any expectation that things are going to happen till the very moment when they do happen. We wake up some morning with no idea that a great happiness is at hand, and before night it has come, and all the world is changed for us; or we wake bright and cheerful, with never a guess that clouds of sorrow are lowering in our sky, to put all the sunshine out for a while, and before noon all is dark. Nothing whispers of either the joy or the grief. No instinct bids us to delay or to hasten the opening of the letter or telegram, or the lifting of the latch of the door at which stands the messenger of good or ill. — Susan Coolidge

The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted. — Wiz Khalifa

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. — Jeanette Winterson

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment. — Robert Ringer

What we need to consider about the computer has nothing to do with its efficiency as a teaching tool. We need to know in what ways it is altering our conception of learning, and how, in conjunction with television, it undermines the old idea of school. Who cares how many boxes of cereal can be sold via television? We need to know if television changes our conception of reality, the relationship of the rich to the poor, the idea of happiness itself. A preacher who confines himself to considering how a medium can increase his audience will miss the significant question: In what sense do new media alter what is meant by religion, by church, even by God? And if the politician cannot think beyond the next election, then we must wonder about what new media do to the idea of political organization and to the conception of citizenship. — Neil Postman

the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises. The precepts certainly teach us what is good, but what they teach is not forthwith done. For they show us what we ought to do, but do not give us the power to do it. They were ordained, however, for the purpose of showing man to himself, that through them he may learn his own impotence for good and may despair of his own strength. For this reason they are called the Old Testament, and are so. — Martin Luther

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. — Henry Ward Beecher

Who can give a man this, his own name? — George MacDonald

How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom. — Nikos Kazantzakis

We find that the people who hate each other that much rarely view the same type of Information. — Malka Ann Older

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart. — John Calvin

He wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self-delusion ... — John Le Carre

Quite likely he would be in the cellars of the Ministry of Love within three days, but a cigarette end must not be wasted. — George Orwell

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling ... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open. — Susan Hill