Newstead Quotes

#1. I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Karen Maitland

#2. It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!

John Steinbeck

#3. Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

Michael Jackson

#4. Early risers are conceited in the morning and stupid in the afternoon.

Rose Henniker Heaton

#5. Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.

Heather Brewer

#6. This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.

Gustave Flaubert

#7. You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. I demolish my bridges behind me ... then there is no choice but to move forward

Fridtjof Nansen

#9. Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Harriet Lerner

#10. When we stop hoping, that which we fear will certainly come.

Christa Wolf