Wivenhoe England Quotes & Sayings

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. — Gary Oldman

It's your obligation to speak the truth, and everyone can either take it or leave it. But truth must be in us. We live in such a poverty of truth today. — Mother Angelica

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. — Eric Clapton

One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus. — John C. Reilly

Pretty much every issue that we've put out, there have been at least one or two things that really surprised me. It sounds like bullshit, but most of the stories that we've run had that effect on me. We get thousands and thousands of submissions and I don't think we've published a story yet - very few, anyway - where there wasn't something like what Mona Simpson described, where a first sentence or a first page didn't just really command attention. — Lorin Stein

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out. — Marc Maron

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge. — Dick Durbin

It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap. — James Lileks

Getting a new job will not change your life. To change your life, change your choices. — Debasish Mridha

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles. — Katherine Paterson

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it. — Emmanuel Jal

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more. — Eric Allman

In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made. — Otto Von Bismarck

It is love alone that counts. — Therese Of Lisieux