Parade's End Sylvia Quotes

#1. If you only enjoy the journey of writing, that's reward enough.

Deray Ogden

#2. When life hands you lemons, hand them back and demand chocolate!

Suzanne Sweeney

#3. Overall we need to get tougher and bigger.

Jay Feaster

#4. Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. But to betray her with battalion ... That is against decency, against Nature ... And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

Ford Madox Ford

#7. The five rings of marriage: there's the engagement ring and the wedding ring, but there are three others, too: the boring, the suffering and the lawyering. I watched it for 20 years from behind a bar in Ft. Lauderdale. I prefer to stay single.

Steve Trotter

#8. I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

Jay Gordon

#9. Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.

Gladys Taber

#10. There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Joseph Addison

#11. I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.

Frank Black

#12. Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

Barack Obama

#13. The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God ... He is working hardly on our prayers ... Don't be afraid!

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. The mechanical clock changed the way we saw ourselves. And like the map, it changed the way we thought. Once the clock had redefined time as a series of units of equal duration, our minds began to stress the methodical mental work of division and measurement.

Nicholas Carr

#15. Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.

Allison Holker