Shambles Teddington Quotes & Sayings

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand. — Lionel Suggs

When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress. — Steve Maraboli

It has been said there is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach, and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside . — Arthur Conan Doyle

This may play well in certain extreme right- and left-wing political circles. But such unrest exacts a huge price on U.S. credibility abroad in all the challenging arenas summarized here, and in others yet to emerge. Political cannibalism at home will severely undercut the authority and credibility of America's role in the world. It will exacerbate U.S. efforts to manage a range of existing security issues and new ones yet unimagined. — Graham T. Allison

Our life is short, and our days run, As fast away as does the sun — Robert Herrick

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision. — Edith Wharton

I believe the universe created us we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious. — Ray Bradbury

we began with honesty let us end in it too - — Rupi Kaur

It's easier to get to the top when you're shooting for the top. — Theresa Russell

My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they're facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him. That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe? — Veronica Roth

She did not dare let it behind her, all unseen. Unseemly. All unseamed. — Patrick Rothfuss

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document. — Samantha Power

Mary Sibley: So, love is to a woman what war is to a man: the most deadly thing they'll do. Only a fool runs quickly to war or love. — Salem

My problems aren't so different from anybody else. — Mariel Hemingway