Rivenhall Hotel Quotes & Sayings

Don't blame me, Pongo,' said Lord Ickenham, 'if Lady Constance takes her lorgnette to you. God bless my soul, though, you can't compare the lorgnettes of to-day with the ones I used to know as a boy. I remember walking one day in Grosvenor Square with my aunt Brenda and her pug dog Jabberwocky, and a policeman came up and said the latter ought to be wearing a muzzle. My aunt made no verbal reply. She merely whipped her lorgnette from its holster and looked at the man, who gave one choking gasp and fell back against the railings, without a mark on him but with an awful look of horror in his staring eyes, as if he had seen some dreadful sight. A doctor was sent for, and they managed to bring him round, but he was never the same again. He had to leave the Force, and eventually drifted into the grocery business. And that is how Sir Thomas Lipton got his start. — P.G. Wodehouse

True change happens within not without — Eckhart Tolle

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot said of poetry is also true of DNA: 'all meanings depend on the key of interpretation.' What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic. — Jonah Lehrer

If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core. — Rysa Walker

One picture will have to be enough.
Just like
one day
will have to be
enough. — Lisa Schroeder

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. — Adrienne Clarkson

Amma Sarah knew that her spiritual power was infinite if she could truly forget herself and allow Christ to work through her. — Kate Cooper

Cordelia faced one more climb onto that torture-device for humans and horses called a saddle. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar. — Rosamond Marshall

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. — Alistair Cooke

Love, love: it was never as pure as you needed it to be. That was the good thing about hate. If you hated someone, really hated him, then you could wish him dead and never once worry that you would change your mind about it. — Brock Clarke

I love you, Ethan Blackstone. — Raine Miller