Vellacott Philip Quotes & Sayings

By 1770, fewer than 10 percent of white Virginians laid claim to over half the land in the colony; a small upper echelon of large planters each owned slaves in the hundreds. More than half of white men owned no land at all, working as tenants or hired laborers, or contracted as servants. — Nancy Isenberg

All that the downtrodden can do is go on hoping. After every disappointment they must find fresh reason for hope. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Knowledge seems like magic to the ignorant. — Amish Tripathi

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid. — Maximillian Degenerez

Great men sometimes lose the reins and lose their heads. This time, let us hope that they will retain them and that when victory is assured they will sit down and reckon what the future is going to be for their countries as well as for other lands. — David Lloyd George

The most immediate is that if you tell your partner "It's okay to ask for anything you want," it better be true. If you're not prepared to make it safe for your partner to open up to you, he won't. Because he'll feel he can't. — Franklin Veaux

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world. — Samuel Johnson

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. — Calvin Trillin

I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment. — Jojo Moyes

A bashful smile ghosted his lips and his tense shoulders relaxed. "We're in fuckin' deep, aren't we, Shakespeare? — Tillie Cole