Turnpikes Industrial Revolution Quotes & Sayings

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds. — Charles Dickens

Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy. — Anne Bernays

However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment. — Tim Holden

Her head fell forward, her small nose hid itself in the collar of her dressing gown and at last she fell asleep. — Simon Mason

Christ, we've only been here for five minutes. It's like being stuck in the Tardis. Time has lost all meaning." He turned away to ditch his cocktail glass, thus missing Lainie's gobsmacked expression. A Doctor Who reference from her second-least-favorite person? Wonders never ceased. — Lucy Parker

They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge. — Kate Atkinson

Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning. — William Goldman

[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman. — Wendy Rose

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education. — Tom Sizemore

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness. — Katy Perry

Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it. — Rebecca Goldstein

There is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out. — Michael Singer

Life is like business. It's 20% what happens to you and 80% how you respond". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Forgiveness wasn't ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren't the subject of its grace. Maybe I'd always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest. — Rachael Wade