Mayor Of Casterbridge Setting Quotes & Sayings

Shun the incremental and go for the leap. — Jack Welch

Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people. — John F. Kennedy

A person doesn't ask permission to fall in love; not even of themselves. — Ann Rinaldi

Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly. — Colleen Hoover

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish. — Charles Simmons

A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place. — Bryant McGill

People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing. — Donald J. Boudreaux

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents. — Patti Smith

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones. — Harry Graf Kessler

Life ain't always beautiful, but it is a beautiful ride — Gary Allen

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think. — John Burdett