Howgill Lodge Quotes & Sayings

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ... — Tim Perkins

the City is not a simple partnership; it is a partnership of partnerships, each of which already has a pattern of its own, a pattern that government did not give it. These partnerships best flourish in that larger partnership which is the City, and law merely assures the background conditions - the most important of which is simple justice - they need in order to do so. Thus the proper aim of the state is not to do everything itself but to support a life which was there before it. — J. Budziszewski

I haven't got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even," said Fred, looking over at Ron's crumpled figure. "Mind you ... when he missed the fourteenth ... "
He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle.
"Well, I'll save it for parties, eh? — J.K. Rowling

I once read somewhere that people would worry much less about what others thought of them if they realized how seldom they did so. — L.S. Hilton

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of. — George MacDonald

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves. — Bodhidharma

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily. — Tracy Chevalier

She soon called a halt to the work. Judy's great success was that she stopped her helpers before they got tired. — Maeve Binchy

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? — Thomas Carlyle

I've worn some ugly shoes. — Julie Bowen

The road to the mountain of holiness first passes through the valley of humility. — Alexander Hill

Never judge a book by its movie. — J. W. Eagan

Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded. — Vance Havner

Once people come to Australia, they join the team. — Tony Abbott