Lavenders Flowers Quotes & Sayings

My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq ... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality. — A.R. Rahman

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here - humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed - but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one. — Christopher Hitchens

What if, when I get home, Nicholas is standing on the porch with open arms, willing to pick up where we left off? Can I let myself make the same mistakes all over again? — Jodi Picoult

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be. — Georges St-Pierre

When placed in command, take charge. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Cruelty didn't have a gender qualifier behind it - it was an ever unraveling human condition, cast out by pride, power, and indifference - and — Bella Forrest

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way. — Sydney J. Harris

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion. — James Carville

If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby. — Will Carling

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires. — Juvenal

I was a schoolteacher for a while, and it was the worst job. — Diplo

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable. — Dana E. Donovan

I hope that the examples I have given have gone some way towards demonstrating that pedestrian touring in the later 1780s and the 1790s was not a matter of a few 'isolated affairs', but was a practice of rapidly growing popularity among the professional, educated classes, with the texts it generated being consumed and reviewed in the same way as other travel literature: compared, criticised for inaccuracies, assessed for topographical or antiquarian interest, and so on. — Robin Jarvis