Norland Quotes

#1. And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?

Jane Austen

#2. I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years

Holly Marie Combs

#3. If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

Confucius

#4. Today the man looked a bit . . . chewed. No, humans wouldn't say "chewed." Frazzled. Was that the human equivalent?

Anne Bishop

#5. What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Helen Keller

#6. Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Harold S. Geneen

#7. I felt that even the sun belonged to my father, that I had no right to it because it was shining upon my father's house. I was like his roses, something that belonged to him and not to me.

Charles Bukowski

#8. ... We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

#9. The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

Ernest Bramah

#10. The primary theological fact about prayer is this: We address a triune God, and our prayers can be heard only through the distinct work of every person in the Godhead.

Timothy J. Keller

#11. They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

A.A. Milne

#12. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost.

Michael Dunlop

#13. The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.

John O'Callaghan

#14. Here she was at nearly forty, trying to reinvent herself once again.

Marie Force

#15. When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did my first stories, developed my first films. A fabulous time.

Sebastiao Salgado

#16. The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Susan Sontag