Lord Tewksbury Quotes & Sayings

Thoughts are ephemeral, they evaporate in the moment they occur, unless they are given action and material form. Wishes and intentions, the same. Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant. Thoughts that lead to action can be dangerous. Thoughts that do not, mean less than nothing. — Ann Leckie

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? — Susan Gordon Lydon

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer. — Jenny Agutter

They take no from our first breath. go back and return it to your mouth. your heart. your light. — Nayyirah Waheed

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state. — Dani Shapiro

She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor. — Diana Peterfreund

And dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside. — Norman Mailer

Get kidnapped once, and you're branded for life." "You came home married, crowned, with a DayGlo prehistoric cat and two Unseelie guardians. — Hailey Edwards

Chess worked for a wholesale grocery firm. He had thought of being a history teacher, but his father had persuaded him that teaching was no way to support a wife and get on in the world. His father had helped him get this job but told him that once he got in he was not to expect any favors. He didn't. He left the house before it was light, during this first winter of our marriage, and came home after dark. He worked hard, not asking that the work he did fit in with any interests he might have had or have any purpose to it that he might have once honored. No purpose except to carry us both toward that life of lawnmowers and freezers which we believed we had no mind for. I might marvel at his submission, if I thought about it. His cheerful, you might say gallant, submission.
But then, I thought, it's what men do. — Alice Munro

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. — E.W. Howe

Anything worth doing should be done according to the will of God. — Sunday Adelaja

There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss. — Jeanette Winterson