Rawdon Crawley Quotes & Sayings

[P]olitical freedom can easily provide the legal frame for economic slavery, with the underprivileged 'freely' selling themselves into servitude. We are thus brought to demand more than just political democracy: we need democratization of social and economic life. In short, we have to admit that what we first took as the failure fully to realize the noble principle of democratic freedom is a failure inherent to this principle itself. Learning how the distortion of a notion, its incomplete realization, is grounded in the distortion immanent to this notion is a big step in political education. — Slavoj Zizek

Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times. — Louisa May Alcott

The decor was attractive and strong, but blander than she would have thought his wealth and position afforded him. Caren couldn't see the point of having that much money if all of it led to beige. — Attica Locke

Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sometimes you have to give yourself to somebody in order to see who you are. Sometimes you have to unravel things to get to the core — Cecelia Ahern

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25. — Luis Suarez

I don't think about going back to the theater. — Angela Lansbury