Deette Mountford Quotes

#1. There is no surer or more painful way to learn a rule than to be penalized once for breaking it.

Tom Watson

#2. Military action is never the first thing that you jump to. You always look at other possibilities, including economic sanctions, tightening the screws.

Benjamin Carson

#3. Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Arthur Smith

#4. I'd like to go home now,' she said softly. She hoped someone would show her the way.

Jenny Downham

#5. Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

C.S. Lewis

#6. It had been so brief a sojourn, not even a full century. He had been a guest in a mansion and he was not ungrateful. He was at once exhausted and refreshed. His stay was ended. Now he must gather up the shabby impedimenta of his mind and body and be on his way again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#7. The secret of innovation is to see what all see but think what none think

Robin Sharma

#8. Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

Olly Murs

#9. The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#11. I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

Petrarch

#12. All I need is some cool bud and some tasty hanging change-ups, and I'm fine!

Khalil Greene

#13. The "divinity that shapes our ends" is in ourselves;

James Allen

#14. Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

Dannie Abse