Wibsey Yorkshire Quotes & Sayings

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news. — David Eddings

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn't just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time. — Conor McGregor

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters. — P. J. O'Rourke

Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever really cross. — Guy Gavriel Kay

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus

Even Solomon, he says, "the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead." Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gore is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. (pg 465) — Herman Melville

She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them in the past week. If they were around, they would help her. Wouldn't they? — Anne Bishop

UNDAUNTED PURSUIT
Success, however measured, is the seat of a stool with three legs of determination, focus and resilience — Kamil Ali

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can. — Edward Hirsch

No matter how I say it, Donghae hyung holds a very high place in my heart. — Cho Kyuhyun

Don't be sad for what you have lost, be happy for the experience. — Linda Harper

Linked to frustration.
I SAW
Linked to unfairness.
WHAT YOU
Linked to guilt.
TO
Linked to helplessness.
HER
Hate.
Hate.
Hate.
DID
Linked to anger. — David Levithan

It is not enough just to read the Bible; it is even just as important to understand it. As to living it- that is accomplished in and through us by the Holy Spirit."


~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

If you feel like it, come with me. I will tell you a story. — Markus Zusak

We need to become sidha (straightforward); there is no need to become a sadhu (ascetic). — Dada Bhagwan