Indian Mutiny 1857 Quotes

#1. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?

Sarra Cannon

#2. When he greeted them on Day 16, he said, "Thanks so much, such great food for us." This time he gave a false, fake laugh. Phony. I thought of my mother . Her disdain for phonies was even greater than her disdain for the lazy.

Shannon Kirk

#3. News of the Indian Mutiny had taken forty-six days to reach London in 1857, travelling at an effective speed of 3.8 miles an hour. News of the huge Nobi earthquake in Japan in 1891 took a single day, travelling at 246 miles an hour, sixty-five times faster.50

Niall Ferguson

#4. Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.

Laura Esquivel

#5. You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

Jody Watley

#7. Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

Eloisa James

#8. I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.

A. J. Jacobs

#9. Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

Eduardo Chillida

#10. Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them.

Anais Nin

#11. RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. Oh, to be told a blissful lie
that might be true!

Julio Dantas

#13. ... the modern era should not see an end to cultural diversity, but modern people should engage with their traditions in a transformed way: they should be recognized as 'traditions,' rather than as 'truths.

Christopher Goto-Jones

#14. A wise man once asked me, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" I thought for a minute, then I slapped him across the face. That got him off my back.

Matthew Diamond

#15. Don't ever discount the cry of your heart. God may be working in your heart to bring about his sovereign plan.

K. Howard Joslin