Plumstead Quotes & Sayings

And I flat out refuse
to have one of those lives
that I wouldn't even want
to read about. — Sonya Sones

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. — John Diamond

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. — Mignon McLaughlin

The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine. — Joseph Jaworski

You and I want to much from this Soviet life".
"I want nothing from this life", said Tatiana. "Just you".
"Me, and running hot water, and electricity, and a little house in the desert, and a State that doesn't ask for your life in return for these small things".
"No", Tatiana said, shaking her head. "Just you".
Moving her hair back under her scarf, Alexander studied her face. "And a State that doesn't ask for your life in return for me. — Paullina Simons

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. — Ezra Stiles

He said that war had destroyed the country and that men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold. His own father said that no man who has not gone to war horseback can ever truly understand the horse and he said that he supposed he wished that this were not so but that it was so. — Cormac McCarthy

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults. — Emily Greene Balch

My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started. — Scott Herman

I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms. — Tinie Tempah

It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. — David Almond

Was it only through another that I could begin to get at myself? — Pico Iyer

Most people are far more prone to let the bad experiences shape their views than the good ones. — Rick Joyner

He thought there was nothing more important than knowledge. He — Malala Yousafzai