Smythson Handbags Quotes & Sayings

They were a most unusual group of colonists. Instead of noblemen, craftsmen, and servants - the types of people who had founded Jamestown in Virginia - these were, for the most part, families - men, women, and children who were willing to endure almost anything if it meant they could worship as they pleased. — Nathaniel Philbrick

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years. — Nas

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

No nation gains the power of judgment except it can pass judgment on itself. But to attain this great privilege takes a very long time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. — Edmond De Goncourt

It's a criminal's playground in Humbridge city, but which gangs will battle it out to become Humbridge police's 'most wanted'? Who knows? Maybe there'll be a joint alliance in which Humbridge police would have to follow their instincts to catch these cunning criminals. It's the eighteenth century and crime is high, but Humbridge was never prepared for what's to come. — Francesca Caines

I wrote my histories and observations. I captured my thoughts and ideas and memories in words on vellum and paper. So much I stored, and thought it was mine. I believed that by fixing it down in words, I could force sense from all that had happened, that effect would follow cause, and the reason for each event come clear to me. Perhaps I sought to justify myself, not just all I had done, but who I had become. For years, I wrote faithfully nearly every evening, carefully explaining my world and my life to myself. — Robin Hobb

I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting. — Malin Akerman

The timing of this sudden interest in the plight of Iraqi women cannot be overemphasized. For decades, many Iraqi women activists in the US and UK had tried to raise awareness about the systematic abuse of human and women's rights under Saddam Hussein, the atrocities linked to the Anfal campaign against the Kurds, and the impact of economic sanctions on women and families ... 'We wrote so many letters and we organized many events ... They did not want to know. They were just not interested. It was only in the run-up to the [2003] invasion that the governments started to care about the suffering of Iraqi women. — Nadje Al-Ali

On the hill opposite, Joachim tolled the midday bell, announcing lunch to the workers in the fields. Klaus listened a moment, then said, "I thought it would be a bleaker scene."
Dietrich turned to him, "What would be?"
"This day. I thought it would be marked by terrible signs - lowering clouds, ominous winds, a crack of thunder. Twilight. Yet, it is so ordinary a morning that I grow frightened."
"Only now frightened."
"Ja. Portents would mean a Divine Mover, however mysterious His moves; and the wrath of an angry God may be turned away by prayer and penance. But it simply happened. Everard grew sick and fell down. There were no signs; so it may be a natural thing, as you have always said. And against nature, we have no recourse. — Michael Flynn