Postwar Britain Quotes & Sayings

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it. — John Newton

Dream more to live more. — Debasish Mridha

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. — William Shakespeare

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics. — Mike Huckabee

It's possible to be afraid and brave at the same time. — Vicki A. King

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible. — Jennifer Damiano

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion. — Alexander Cockburn

Let me say to begin with: It is not neurotic to have conflict ... Conflicts within ourselves are an integral part of human life. — Karen Horney

Well, you know ... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no conception of how austere England was after the war. While you were all sort of eating butter and eggs, we were eating rabbit. That's what there was in the butcher shop. — Tim Curry

Cosmopolitan discourse ... provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way. — Namsoon Kang

In Greece, British troops entered after the Nazis had withdrawn. They imposed a corrupt regime that evoked renewed resistance, and Britain, in its postwar decline, was unable to maintain control. In 1947, the United States moved in, supporting a murderous war that resulted in about 160,000 deaths. — Noam Chomsky

How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart. — Tosca Lee

Well, I don't know. When I signed my contract, I signed to play Loki in five more Marvel movies, but they were unspecified. So, if there will be more movies or not remains to be seen, but I like the idea of Loki turning up in the shadows when people least expect him, but you never know these things, the world changes and the things change, but I feel like I know who Loki is, so I wouldn't mind. — Tom Hiddleston

I don't know who she is anymore, or who she was, but I need to find her. — John Green