Temperate Continental Climate Quotes & Sayings

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all. — Charles Colson

But elimination will only happen if all countries - nuclear and non-nuclear states - genuinely work towards this result. Nuclear states must abolish their arsenals, as was indicated by the unanimous opinion of the international Court of Justice, the highest international tribunal. The five nuclear states seem to expect others to refrain from obtaining bombs while at the same time maintaining their own caches of deadly weapons. — C. G. Weeramantry

As the son of a feminist mother, I grew up with the idea that work was a sort of salvation for women as it would give them freedom from the domestic grind. Now it seems work is a form of slavery, undertaken out of apparent compulsion rather than choice. — Tom Hodgkinson

I need to remember what they look like. I try to hold them still behind my eyes, their faces, like pictures in an album. But they won't stay still for me, they move, there's a smile and it's gone, their features curl and bend as if the paper's burning, blackness eats them. A glimpse, a pale shimmer on the air; a glow, aurora, dance of electrons, then a face again, faces. But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. Back to wherever they are. Stay with me, I want to say. But they won't. — Margaret Atwood

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!' — Jamie Campbell Bower

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.
If only you'd stayed in character. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates. — Marty Rubin

At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs. — Cherie Lunghi

Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance. — David Whyte

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Poor is the man who desires a lot — Leonardo Da Vinci

...that envy and a sense of injustice are not always that easily distinguished, let alone extricated, one from the other. — Joseph Epstein

The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there. — Isabel Allende