Thorpes Hours Quotes & Sayings

I'm writing this memoir from the perspective of somebody who's prosperous and has means. Having said that, one of the things that I think I discovered about those additional years is that I don't think they really are added to the end of life. — Anna Quindlen

My feelings are my own responsibility. I don't see what trust has to do with it. I can't go around handing them off to other people. — Laura Florand

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives. — Pema Chodron

Until we walk with despair, and still have hope, we will not know that our hope was not just hope in ourselves, in our own successes, in our power to make a difference, in our image of what perfection should be. We need hope from a much deeper Source. We need a hope larger than ourselves.
Until we walk with personal issues of despair, we will never uncover the Real Hope on the other side of that despair. Until we allow the crash and crush of our images, we will never discover the Real Life beyond what only seems like death. Remember, death is an imaginary loss of an imaginary self, that is going to pass anyway.
This very journey is probably the heart of what Jesus came to reveal. — Richard Rohr

It was a political act. — George Orwell

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

You're a diabolical little pyro, aren't you?
He blushed modestly. — James Patterson

Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: — Charlotte Bronte

Under the bludgeonings of fate
My head is bloody, but unbowed. — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Being five-foot-ten at fourteen years old was a little bit scary. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

We clung to each other, as bookish young people often do, while waiting out the years until our real lives could begin. At — Molly Crabapple

Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe. — Patricia Briggs

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking. — Seth Klarman

It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington. — Tony Stewart

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it. — Lauren Beukes