Outhwaite Charitable Trust Quotes & Sayings

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life. — James Salter

By the time I arrive at evening, / they have just settled down to rest; / already invisible, they are turning / into the dreamwork of the trees ... . — Lisel Mueller

They couldn't have known that slowly, year by year, the ocean's water would ingest a people's fury so completely that hurricanes would come each season and claim lives in recompense for Africans gone overboard. — Daniel Black

Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may avoid pregnancies and comply with the strident voice demanding a reduction of children. It was never easy to bear and rear children, but easy things do not make for growth and development. But loud, blatant voices today shout 'fewer children' and offer the Pill, drugs, surgery, and even ugly abortion to accomplish that. Strange the proponents of depopulating the world seem never to have thought of continence! — Spencer W. Kimball

It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it. — Josh Lieb

There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that. — Todd Rundgren

When you get used to being let down, you will never be ashamed of failure. — Uzoma Nnadi

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah

I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation. — Mason Cooley

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character. — Gary Ryan Blair