Alex Morton Quotes

#1. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

Vaclav Havel

#2. Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.

Daniel Bernoulli

#3. Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now? -

Flora Thompson

#4. You have to make the compromise: resign, stay out of the government, and you can say what you like ... but no one has to do anything about it.

Bob Ainsworth

#5. Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

David Foster Wallace

#6. Most of the time my own family feels like I don't need anything, I'm tough as nails and I don't have any feelings about anything. They really think that I'm this super tough person. I have a tough exterior, but I get upset. I have feelings and all those things. I wear my heart on my sleeve.

NeNe Leakes

#7. That's a rhetorical question, and trying to answer rhetorical questions instead of being cowed by them is a good habit to cultivate.

Daniel C. Dennett

#8. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

Rupert Friend

#9. Morality cannot replace goodness.
Knowledge cannot replace wisdom.
Fame cannot replace honor.
Pleasure cannot replace contentment.
Passion cannot replace love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary, banal life: my impossible dream.

Salman Rushdie

#11. Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

Charlie Simpson

#12. You want sins, Aunt? I'll show you sinning. I'll make the devil weep, I'll sin so bad.

Heidi Cullinan

#13. Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

Jack London

#14. To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Lawrence Clark Powell

#15. Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.

Ruth Draper