Streatfeild Noel Quotes & Sayings

Everything in life has its price. — Paulo Coelho

If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace. — Boris Johnson

You never can tell what's magic. — Noel Streatfeild

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace. — Josephine Baker

There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances. — Noel Streatfeild

During the last six months the little girl Harriet, without her noticing it, had disappeared and a new Harriet had taken her place. A Harriet who looked much the same outside, but was more of a person inside. — Noel Streatfeild

I sometimes feel that I'd like to talk about it. Then I find it's better if I don't. — Noel Streatfeild

Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams. — Noel Streatfeild

Percy couldn't believe he was talking about the end of the world with a loaf of Wonder bread in his hand. — Rick Riordan

America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom. — John Fugelsang

I have a house here in California and come back every month and a half to see my kids. And they come to New York. — Robin Wright

It might have all the same; you never can tell what's magic. — Noel Streatfeild

Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty. — Jacqueline Novogratz

It was all very well to be ambitious, but ambition should not kill the nice qualities in you. — Noel Streatfeild

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal. — Johnny Depp

Again, as it was after Udayan's death, there was an acute awareness of time, of the future looming, accelerating. The baby's lifetime, so scant, already outdistancing and outpacing her own. This was the logic of parenthood. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength. — Bikram Choudhury

It's about that applause I want to speak to you. I want you to remember that when you've done a little dance or a song or sketch, the applause which you get is not only because you yourself have done your best, but because each of those men is seeing in you someone he loves at home, and because of you is able to forget for a little while the unhappiness of not being in his home, and in some cases the great tragedy of not knowing what has happened to the children in his family. — Noel Streatfeild