Montsegur Fortress Quotes & Sayings

Suddenly realised that if he felt that he had achieved nothing it was because he had failed to cherish what he had in fact done. He had filled his days doing ordinary, unexceptional things and thought nothing of them. But they were far from nothing: — Alexander McCall Smith

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious. — Adam Hochschild

A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine. — Ursula Hegi

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. — Michael Ondaatje

Author Kenneth Blanchard says, "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." That's what leaders do. They commit and follow through. — John C. Maxwell

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. — Lucian Freud

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened. — Sebastian Faulks

The Book Highlights and Attacks areas of Inefficiency and Hypocrisy in Government Offices. It injects the much-need Enema into its Highly Constipated System. — Mahesh Ubhayakar

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write. — Lori Lesko

Man, it was a good thing he fought like a nasty bastard or he might have been taken for a nancy. — J.R. Ward

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea! — Earl Nightingale

I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving. — Tod Goldberg

We're headed for the South Pole!" Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys' room next door. "And it's, like, so far south that it's the bottom of the whole world. — James Patterson

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway. — Daniel Craig

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. — Henry Adams