Top 13 Inspiring Winter Solstice Quotes
#1. Arthur Braithwaite, known to Louisa and the children as God. And all right, strictly speaking Braithwaite did not exist. Why should he? Not every god has to exist in order to do his job.
John Le Carre
#2. O thoughtful waste of my days! What an artist I have destroyed!
Paul Valery
#3. Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making.
M.L. Stedman
#4. She knew neither that she was living in the first century BC nor in the Hellenistic Age, both of them later constructs. (The Hellenistic Age begins with the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and ends in 30 BC, with the death of Cleopatra.
Stacy Schiff
#5. There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
William Godwin
#7. Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#9. Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#10. I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard Branson
#11. The woman who entered had the plump, matronly figure of the Good Gramma in a children's story and the beady eyes of a dick in a department store.
Stephen King
