Lampstands In The Time Quotes & Sayings

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? — Henry David Thoreau

You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else. — John Fowles

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. — Washington Irving

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check. — Edward Burns

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining. — Bryant McGill

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life. — Michael Faraday

Love is in air, love is in wind, love is in every soul hidden beneath. Wake up and show your love because love is all you need. — Santosh Kalwar

In life as in football, you must keep pressing on till the final whistle. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change ...
Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere? — Nick Harkaway

If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned. — Victoria Justice

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. — Donald Rumsfeld