Savills Estate Quotes & Sayings

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! — Belva Plain

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side. — Henry David Thoreau

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right. — Glenn Beck

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. — Ethel Mumford

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness. — Maya Angelou

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. — Edith Sitwell

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well. — Lev Vygotsky

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do. — Dwight Gooden

Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge' ... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. — Sufjan Stevens

The consciousness-raising, the advocacy, the passion, the youth of your movement is so critical. — Hillary Clinton

I get out of all of these things that many of these candidates would rather take legislation to build a time machine and go back in time to where we had, you know, no women voting, slavery was cool. I mean, it's just kind of ridiculous. — Thomas Roberts

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. — Michael Novak

Others read the Bible to make it fit in and prove their favorite creed or notions; and if it does not do so, they will not read it. It has been well said that we must not read the Bible by the blue light of Presbyterianism; nor by the red light of Methodism; nor by the violet light of Episcopalianism; but by the light of the Spirit of God. — D.L. Moody