Mary Anne Disraeli Quotes & Sayings

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train ... — Tom Waits

Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more? — Marian Keyes

I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. — Seneca.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. — Leigh Hunt

I need time where it is quiet, the world is loud enough even when no one is talking. Please respect that it's something that I must do, I don't mean to disrespect you — Tina J. Richardson

If you do not know the horrors and the tragedies of life, you can be sure that you know nothing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To put it in somewhat drastic terms, Cambridge in the thirties was characterised by two things: a craze for communism and a craze for homosexuality.
"Rubbish!" Farley said.
"Well, you're bound to have been busy with other things as well, like drunkenness, geometry and Shakespeare. — David Lagercrantz

Prayer is in essence rebellion - rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God. — David G. Wells

Unfortunately, our society is a victim of such a world system which does not encourage people to live consciously and become who they were called to be — Sunday Adelaja

[A kitten] gets himself into every kind of trouble ... — Champfleury

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even if we wished to do so, it could not be done. Every man has his own conception of the world, and this he cannot so easily lay aside. We must, example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas. Only they are unconscious preconceived ideas, which are a thousand times the most dangerous of all. — Henri Poincare

I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped. — Jim Thompson

In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries. — Orhan Pamuk