Cadair Idris Quotes

#1. On the top of Cadair Idris,
I felt how happy a man might be
with a little money and a sane intellect,
and reflected with astonishment and pity
on the madness of the multitude.

Thomas Love Peacock

#2. Vocabulary and coherent sentences can't be downloaded onto paper unless they've first been uploaded to the head - by reading.

Jim Trelease

#3. Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.

Dean F. Bryson

#4. She was like an avenging angel, her vengeance swift and deadly.

Cassandra Clare

#5. By fate or forgery, our dances are entwined for eternity.

Natalia Marx

#6. We seek the fulfilment of strong romantic relationships and friendships, yet striving too hard to achieve security in such relationships stifles them; their flourishing depends on a certain degree of not being protected, of being open to experiences both negative and positive.

Oliver Burkeman

#7. American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel.

Tariq Ali

#8. My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!

Susan Davis

#9. Q: Do you really distance yourself from your subject? I mean, what would you do if you were presented with a young girl burning to death?
A: About 1/60 at f5.6.

Robert Capa

#10. My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research.

Pete Docter

#11. Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

Robin Williams

#12. The trick to seeing things other people missed was to look for them.

Gwenda Bond

#13. Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source.

Charles Dickens

#14. Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

Tony Robbins

#15. These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.

Louis Pasteur

#16. The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Peter Farb