Saints Basil And Gregory Quotes & Sayings

To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings? — David McCullough

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

And a few months later, an opinion poll found that 54 percent of the American people wanted the United Nations to become a world government with power to control the armed forces of all nations, including the United States. — Eric Schlosser

According to Ommaney, prior to their departure Zinat Mahal had been squabbling loudly with Jawan Bakht after the latter had fallen in love with one of his father's harem women. He also began using the family's now scarce financial resources to bribe the guards to bring him bottles of porter: 'What an instance of the state of morals and domestic economy of Ex-Royalty,' wrote a disapproving Ommaney to Saunders. 'Mother and son at enmity, the son trying to form a connection with his father's concubine, and setting at nought the precepts of his religion, buying from, and drinking, the liquor of an infidel. — William Dalrymple

I know the secret of life, interestingly [laughs]: it's pleasure in simple things. I've always had this since I started growing up; I realised why I was mostly happy. It's because I took pleasure in the simplest, little things. — Anonymous

Anyone who thinks life is boring hasn't lived — Fred Cooper

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. — Drew Carey

Life teaches us many lessons daily, even from our mishaps, only if we pay attention — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Officer, this guy is not waiting around for me ... so you better shoot me or help me but decide now! — Jack Bauer