Peccavi Napier Quotes & Sayings

What you have to do as soon as you know about somebody, then you have to think what goodness he has got, how can I imbibe that goodness within myself? — Nirmala Srivastava

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music. — Harrison Birtwistle

So here I am, upside down in a woman. — Ian McEwan

In 1843, after annexing the Indian province of Sind, British General Sir Charles Napier sent home a one word telegram, "Peccavi" implying "I have Sind..."

(Napier was under explicit instructions that:
1. He was not to attack Hyderabad.
2. If provoked to fighting, he was under no conditions take Hyderabad's
capital -- Sind.
He then (according to the story) send the one word message Peccavi to London and of course all the recipients understood that he had violated his order and taken the city - the old British boy school Latin training... — Charles Napier

movement is not only practised but an entirely new repertoire of movement is acquired. The experience of movement, therefore, becomes a pedagogical process. — Martin Boedicker

The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. — Clifford Odets

I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones. — Sammy Rhodes

Trev
"I heard you were going to go out with him and I burned with jealousy. No, burning isn't the right word. I was more like an inferno. So I followed you ... "
"You're as pathetic as I am," I gasped out.
"Worse," he qualifies. "I'm a pathetic geek."
I snuggle back in to him "Yeah, well so am I. — Cindy C. Bennett

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. — Jim Barksdale

People always loved best what they identified most with. — Arundhati Roy

Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order. — Virginia Aird

Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures ... let that be our motto. — Arthur Mattuck

Or, maybe what really mattered was that game of Crazy 8s. — Gina Marinello-Sweeney

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. — William Shakespeare

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth. — Liberty Hyde Bailey