Karndean Quotes & Sayings

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. — Emile Souvestre

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years. — Major Owens

She regards me quietly and then she quotes something Mistress Coyle once said to me. "We are the choices we make." It takes me a second to realize she's just said goodbye. — Patrick Ness

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed. — Ludwig Quidde

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole. — Mark Twain

Is it possible that despite our inventions and progress, despite our culture, religion and knowledge of the world, we have remained on the surface of life? — Rainer Maria Rilke

It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth. — Merle Shain

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies. — Mahatma Gandhi

The last night of love, the first night of war — Camil Petrescu

And then Finley seized the spindly metal arm attached to her throat. A normal human would have no hope against such strength, but Finley was not normal. She snapped the arm at the elbow joint and then ripped the offending hand from her neck.
Holding the arm by the hand and wrist, she used it to beat the automaton ... — Kady Cross

I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about! — Julia Sawalha

I looked at a lot of photos from Hollywood in the '20s, photographs of silent movies being filmed all over the world which are very specific and very evocative. Berenice, the lead actress, is my wife. She really followed the same path with me. — Michel Hazanavicius