Doug Whitmore Quotes

#1. I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Eudora Welty

#3. Anne Lynburn's grave isn't here."
"It sure isn't. What a pity, I was really looking forward to my first experience violating a resting place.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#4. The modern emphasis on what is called 'clean fun' is really the symptom of a general unwillingness to touch upon any serious or controversial subject.

George Orwell

#5. diabolic perseverance

Isaac Asimov

#6. There are so many beautiful lives with wrong 'colors'!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#7. The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness ...

Ann Voskamp

#9. The woman who engaged him had no idea that her gardener was one of the most distinguished scientists in Britain until a friend came for tea one day and, looking out the window, casually asked: "My dear, why is the Nobel laureate Sir Lawrence Bragg pruning your hedges?" Late

Bill Bryson

#10. Against one perfect moment, the centuries beat in vain.

Terry Pratchett

#11. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.

Philip M. Rosenzweig

#12. Then he remembered that the man was a fucking moron and that explained everything.

R.L. Mathewson

#13. Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.

Terry Eagleton

#14. If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

John Owen