Incredible Journey Sheila Burnford Quotes & Sayings

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away. — Chinua Achebe

Unremarkable, but with a brainy arrogance wafting from them. — Gillian Flynn

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life. — Trina Paulus

Confidence is not about being self-centered. It's about being emotionally centered, so you can better see other people. — Karen C. Eddington

To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day. — Thomas A Kempis

And every word sounded both a defence against what he truly felt and a betrayal of all that he was. — Richard Flanagan

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it. — Bertolt Brecht

I've met the people who run Alabama. Believe me, they're not that smart. — Ken Follett

No arbitrary obstacles should prevent people from achieving those positions for which their talents fit them and which their values lead them to seek. Not birth, nationality, color, religion, sex, nor any other irrelevant characteristic should determine the opportunities that are open to a person - only his abilities. — Milton Friedman

I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier. — Malin Akerman

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Wolf came up with a handful of salt, and with an apologetic grimace at his cousin, he warned, I'm gonna salt you, dude. — Anonymous