Dakin Quotes

#1. CAME A SHADOW A Novel By Patrick Dakin

Patrick Dakin

#2. Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
Scripps: No.
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Alan Bennett

#3. Burckhardt fumbled through his notes. "Dakin and

Elizabeth Peters

#4. Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

Anthony Bennett

#5. You don't find cows with names any more and there aren't any farmers like Mr. Dakin, who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves, pigs and hens.

James Herriot

#6. What do you mean, Jesus?' May Roper pulled the crocheted sea a little further up her legs.
'On the drainpipe. I've seen Him with my own eyes.'
'Have you been in the sun again, Brian?'
'Sheila Dakin thinks it's a sign.'
'A sign she's been at the sherry.

Joanna Cannon

#7. You're so ... You're too ... You're ... " He faltered, then took a deep breath. "I have no words for you, Sita. You leave me speechless."
I smiled and pinched his buttock so he twitched. "Speechless? Gods, I've broken you. I never would have deemed it possible to render you speechless.

Erica Dakin

#8. There was no room for unhappiness when squeezed between two sets of washboard abs.
New life motto, right there.

Cora Carmack

#9. The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

Peer Steinbruck

#10. Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

John Prescott

#11. Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Sri Chinmoy

#12. Is that how you get propositioned at the court? 'Mylady, would you be so kind as to allow me to put my manhood in your vagina'?

Erica Dakin

#13. Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. They insist upon the shaving of the moustache, I think, in order that they may accustom the young men to obedience in the most trifling matters.

Plutarch

#15. This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did ... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#16. Society as we know it is almost a conspiracy against human health. One of the main forces working to counteract that is the trailsman.

Stewart Udall

#17. Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!

Sheryl Lee Ralph

#18. Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state.

Paul P. Enns

#19. Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#20. My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such.

Erica Dakin

#21. We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

Fiona McIntosh

#22. So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

Tucker Carlson