Calais Quotes

#1. He was calmly eating his soup, laughing with pleasant good-humour, as if he had come all the way to Calais for the express purpose of enjoying supper at this filthy inn, in the company of his arch-enemy.

Emmuska Orczy

#2. As the Battle of Normandy raged, the Germans held fast to the illusion, so carefully planted and now so meticulously sustained, that a great American army under Patton was preparing to pounce and the German forces in the Pas de Calais must remain in place to repel it.

Ben Macintyre

#3. In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

Sam Kean

#4. It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

Henry Miller

#5. Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. God does not interfere with fate; he simply helps man cope with it.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#7. I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. Their vain presumption of knowing all can take beginning solely from their never having known anything; for if one has but once experienced the perfect knowledge of one thing, and truly tasted what it is to know, he shall perceive that of infinite other conclusions he understands not so much as one.

Galileo Galilei

#10. It is hard to be modest at times like these so I won't even try ... you are all shite!

Noel Gallagher

#11. I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.

Patti Smith

#12. War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

Cornelia Meigs