Torday J Quotes & Sayings

He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't tend to produce happiness or fulfilment without some sense of love to go with them. — Paul Torday

We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles. — Paul Torday

Hazel twirled her hair pensively. "I don't like the idea of you risking your life alone, but you're right. We saw what recovering the golden eagle standard did for the Roman legion. If this statue is the most powerful symbol of Athena ever created - " "It could kick some serious booty," Leo offered. Hazel frowned. "That wasn't the way I'd put it, but yes. — Rick Riordan

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse. — Jon Cryer

Norman believes in his own abilities. He believes what his parents taught him, that a clever man will rise like yeast if he is careful. He — Paul Torday

It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it ... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis ... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen ... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish ... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did ... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing. — Paul Torday

I travel whenever I can - every couple of years if it is possible. I always say I'm not to write books on the countries I visit, but somehow I always seem to use material I can found in these countries in my books. — Ursula Torday

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through — Paul Torday

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. — Maurice Sendak

We might be able to see God's body in the Kabbalah's ten Sefirot, but it was 1986, barely forty years since our grandparents' generation sat desperate and fated in their East European neighborhoods. Never again, our teachers incanted to us Monday after Monday, Wednesday after Wednesday. But when I picture myself in those rooms in the basement of our shul, even now I can only hear the incantation's reciprocal: It will happen again. Beware. Be always aware. — Daniel Torday

I believe in it because it is impossible. — Paul Torday

For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him. — Paul Torday

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know. — Sonia Sotomayor

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it. — Henry Mintzberg

Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama) — Paul Torday

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in. — Paul Torday

Farrukh, tonight you have won a dishwasher — Paul Torday

When you're in trouble, go and see your mother. — Paul Torday

Illusions are fabrications of fragmented data designed to appease the soul and entice the flesh. Even in the real world we're surrounded by illusions. Like false advertising and misrepresentations by people. Visual just created a world not so different from our own. Where such illusions are fulfilled and enjoyed vicariously." Spiral explained. — Jill Thrussell