Jephcott Charitable Trust Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable? — Rumi

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B. — John Guare

The presumption took hold and grew ever firmer that it was the business of government to find solutions to all such problems. Any minister who sought to say that there was nothing that he could or should try to do about them was at once forced on to his defensive back foot by media and parliamentary pressure. At the same time, more citizens were ready to complain about the shortcomings of existing services, and more numerous and competent pressure groups, like the claimants' unions I had come across in supplementary benefits, arose to pursue their complaints. To cap it all, the courts began, and went on to widen, the practice of subjecting the administrative decisions of ministers to judicial review. No wonder that the ministers themselves, also wilting (as their American and French counterparts were not) under the pressures of increasing parliamentary business, found themselves in difficulties. — Richard Wilding

Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble! — Dizzy Gillespie

Even if my neighbor doesn't understand my religion or understand my politics, he can understand my story. — Paulo Coelho

When you realize that someone doesn't like you, don't dwell on it. You do not need everyone to like you. Anyone who feels they need to be liked by everyone likely doesn't realize how exhausting this would be if it were to actually happen. Be thankful that there are those who want to ignore you. There is only one you. Charge admission. — Nick Burd

If I had a great body, I'd be naked all the time. — Claire Forlani

Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially. — Anupam Kher