Medhurst Wines Quotes & Sayings

You adulterate the truth as you write. There isn't any pretense that you try to arrive at the literal truth. And the only consolation when you confess to this flaw is that you are seeking to arrive at poetic truth, which can be reached only through fabrication, imagination, stylization. What I'm striving for is authenticity; none of it is real. — W.G. Sebald

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet. — Pericles

And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going. — C.S. Lewis

(I)f you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you. — Leigh Brackett

I am very lucky to have the opportunity to travel to so many amazing destinations for work! — Brad Goreski

The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. — Christian Lous Lange

For us, it is all about breaking the boundaries between different genres of music and combining different styles of music and performing what we are passionate about. We are so lucky that we can experience both worlds: the more intimate classical world and the wild and crazy world of rock n' roll. — Luka Sulic

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey. — Charles Kennedy

Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity. — Adam M. Grant

The healer and the killer both rely on the blade: the physician his scalpel, the assassin his dagger. — Fiona Paul

The most interesting things are always happening behind one. — Iris Murdoch

Tell the children to do all their business before they come over. I do not change diapers. — Sophie Oak

The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable. — Susan Messing