Peshen Book Quotes & Sayings

I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. — Hippocrates

Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed. — Alastair Campbell

Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length. — Barack Obama

Between the three of us," she said, gesturing to her daughters, "we could probably take them all out."
I winced. "You mean, kill them."
"No, take them all out for ice cream. — Rachel Hawkins

She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart. — Jean Thompson

I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in. — Paula Hawkins

He shook his head and said, "No, He just went up," pointing his index finger to the ceiling of the room. — Neal Pylant

There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you. — Patricia Wentworth

Fifty-five thousand, five hundred and seventy-three dead from Bomber Command. Seven million German dead, including the five hundred thousand killed by the Allied bombing campaign. The sixty million dead overall of the Second World War, including eleven million murdered in the Holocaust. The sixteen million of the First World War, over four million in Vietnam, forty million to the Mongol conquests, three and a half million to the Hundred Years War, the fall of Rome took seven million, the Napoleonic Wars took four million, twenty million to the Taiping Rebellion. And so on and so on and so on, all the way back to the Garden when Cain killed Abel. — Kate Atkinson

Locale is both a geographic term and the inner sense of being. — Robert Creeley

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents. — Kurt Vonnegut

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

All the past up to a moment ago is your legacy. You have a right to it. — Robert Henri