Shurland House Quotes & Sayings

General state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another. By — George Orwell

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone. — Paul Theroux

There is no happily ever after. There is just not miserable for now. — John Goode

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted. — Joe Perry

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. — Henri Frederic Amiel

That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. — Veronica Roth

There is a coherence in things, a stability; something ... is immune from change and shines out ... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby. — Virginia Woolf

Bosses run things. The rest of us get run. It's the only rank that matters these days. You can dress it up as baronies or boyars or caliphates, but that's just sticking lace and ribbons on the dinosaur and hoping he'll take you to town. Is you a boss or isn't you? That's about the size of it. — Catherynne M Valente

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health. — Sting

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff. — Corey Taylor

[Sanctification] is a process that includes on the one hand medication and diet (in the form of biblical instruction and admonition coming in various ways to the heart), and on the other hand tests and exercises (in the form of internal and external pressures, providentially ordered, to which we have to make active response). The process goes on as long as we are in the world, which is something that God decides in each case. — J.I. Packer

But the words did not come. They never do, when one needs them. — Frederick Forsyth