Potton Lower Quotes & Sayings

It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive. — Susan E. Isaacs

Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there. — Frank Bruni

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires. — Pico Iyer

There is travel and there are babies; everything else is drudgery and death. — Dave Eggers

Not confidence - I understand confidence. What he had was knowledge. — Leif Enger

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun

Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one's loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced? — Amitav Ghosh

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both. — Seth

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested. — Philippe Petit

All the Jews of Polish origin were being sent back to the land of their forefathers, and so the two gentle sisters kissed us and packed and left. We sent them packages in care of the Jewish community in Warsaw, but of course the packages were returned because it was illegal to send anything to Jews. So we took the advice of a wily neighbor, wrote the address in Polish, and like magic the packages arrived. — Edith Hahn Beer