Ted Dwane Quotes & Sayings

But everyone had to die, and Father had given his life for the sake of a better world. If more Germans had had his courage the Nazis would not have triumphed. She wanted to do all the things he had done: to raise her children well, to make a difference to her country's politics, to love and be loved. Most of all, when she died, she wanted her children to be able to say, as she said of her father, that her life had meant something, and that the world was a better place for it. — Ken Follett

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships — Arthur Conan Doyle

This is why there is poetry. For days like these. — Paula McLain

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. — Sara Sheridan

Never camp by the edge of a waterhole"; "don't screw with hippos"; "baboons are like German shepherds on crack"; — Marilyn Johnson

In terms of how prudish Americans were in the '40s and '50s, I have absolutely no idea. I do know about the character that I play. And I don't think it's about being prudish. I think it's about trying to balance a sense of control in this man's life. — Michael Sheen

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! — Alexander The Great

The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution. — Richard J. Borden

I would love to do a record with Usher. — Sevyn Streeter

I wish it hadn't happened; but what good does this do? I can wish it wouldn't happen again - but here too, if I'm wishing the impossible, it will do no good at all. — Claire Messud