Wolseley Quotes & Sayings

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts. — P.D. James

This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts. — Omar Khayyam

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. — Benjamin Disraeli

I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time. — John Legend

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures. — Dorothy Day

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble. — Garret Keizer

They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes — Haruki Murakami

Don't spend so much time chasing your future that you run over your present — Carlos Wallace

Showing STRENGTH doesn't mean we have to fight a battle...Sometimes it's far better to WALK AWAY from all the nonsense and those who indulge in it — Karen Gibbs

I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums. — Matthew Morrison

Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case I gained a lot by studying the characters of the chiefs under whom I served from time to time. Lord Wolseley, for instance, said: "Use your common sense rather than book instructions." — Robert Baden-Powell

This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way. — Sara Paretsky