Philpotts Quotes & Sayings

business men accumulate great fortunes, by giving before they try to get. — Napoleon Hill

Live happily, not hating even those who are hostile. Live peacefully even amongst those that hate. — Gautama Buddha

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed. — Boris Johnson

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind. — Carol Ryrie Brink

My default button was set to self-destruct. It had been since birth. — Mercy Celeste

to itself, is arid, wind-swept, and unproductive. The land is flat and river-made, and therefore has no minerals whatever and almost no stone. Except for the huge reeds in the marshes, it had no trees for timber. Here, then, was a region with "the hand of God against it," an unpromising land seemingly doomed to poverty and desolation. But the people that inhabited it, the Sumerians, as they came to be known by — Samuel Noah Kramer

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. — Richard Griffiths