Kenderton Quotes & Sayings

An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on. — Jacqueline Carey

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance. — Richard Asher

We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost. — Douglas Kennedy

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. — David Brooks

Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death. — Mahatma Gandhi

On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns. — Dara O Briain

Ah, Lord Northcliff, how well you look this afternoon!"
"Thank you. I feel well indeed."
Taking Amy's hand, he held it in both of his. "As long as my princess is nigh. — Christina Dodd

We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. — Paddy Ashdown

Curt letters, Lord Balon had written of his youngest — George R R Martin

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders. — Ellen Forney

I just rocked the eye chart,
So if you can't see it, now you know it by heart. — MC Paul Barman

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. — Charles R. Swindoll