Wainwright Lake District Quotes & Sayings

For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference to anything other than one's own survival, which results in increased selfishness, hardness of heart, denial - which in the long range will bring about the devaluation of self. To counter this devaluation, therefore, one flees into pride of accomplishment. Isn't what we do the defining measure of selfhood in our society? — Michael D. O'Brien

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy. — Claude Louis Berthollet

Presently we began to have our slices of the national cake," F. Scott Fitzgerald remembered, "and our idealism only flared up when the newspapers made melodrama out of such stories as Harding and the Ohio Gang or Sacco and Vanzetti. — Bruce Watson

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it. — Jose Saramago

If I fail, you will never hear of me again. — Eadweard Muybridge

I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about. — Wendelin Van Draanen

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it. — William Gibson