Woland Lost Quotes & Sayings

It's always the next pay raise, the next purchase, the next place you move to or go on holiday which will make you happy. The credit crunch could have been a moment to reflect on that. We in the West can do something that no people in history have done: we can show the world that we know when we have enough. As the planet runs out of resources, due mainly to the fact that everyone on it wants to live a lifestyle equivalent to those of us in the West, this lesson would have the potential to save the world. — John Lanchester

I hate, and yet must love the thing I hate. — Ovid

Truths can be wholly contradictory, the blackest black and the whitest white at the same time. — Nadia Hashimi

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents. — Lord Chesterfield

The public's not stupid. — Rita Ora

The ocean moans over dead men's bones. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning. — Sarah Lewis

The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle. — Francis Parkman

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work. — Maya Angelou

The amount of money that a person has in his bank account is not determined by his starting capital but by his knowledge about money and his ability to manage it properly. — Sunday Adelaja