English Thoroughness Quotes

#1. Cookery means ... English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

John Ruskin

#2. I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Missy Peregrym

#3. To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Hanna Rosin

#4. Diligence is the mother of good luck.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#5. She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

Holly Black

#6. Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Phyllis McGinley

#7. I will see only what I want to see.
It's possible that's how people get through crisis.
The world where we live is so much in our head.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#8. Science fiction is something that could happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that couldn't happen - though often you only wish that it could.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca

Karen Armstrong

#10. Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#11. It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. We can only recreate ourselves with renewal of our mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.

Pankaj Mishra

#14. Being an older mom, I'm super mellow with my kids. Also, "curious" and "loving."

Sheryl Crow

#15. I have a happy temperament: a bit like 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'

Terry Wogan