Peckham Spring Quotes

#1. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

Dale Carnegie

#2. I was sent to a school with bosses for teachers- no Twain, only cane; check your dick you harry, no Dickens either, No Tom Sawyers no David Copperfields only Webster, master it for grammar, the Wren with a dash of Martini-Drink deep.

Aporva Kala

#3. A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.

Lisa Randall

#4. Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Sadie Jones

#5. The essence of Western civilization is the Magna Carta, not the Magna Mac. The fact that non-Westerners may bite into the latter has no implications for their accepting the former.

Samuel P. Huntington

#6. Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

Alexei Sayle

#7. To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

Bob Dylan

#8. No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#9. You find yourself in this world, you find yourself out of this world and there's no one to find the Self. There's no Self to find.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Wars are always madness: all is lost in war, all is to be gained in peace.

Pope Francis

#11. My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Paul Tsongas

#12. She had to quickly pop back to the fifteenth century to find a word for how beautiful he was. The boy was makeless.

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It's all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!

John C. Maxwell

#14. Dogs deserve proper names."
"Cats, too?"
"Cats are entirely different. They catch mice.

Julia Quinn

#15. One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

James Russell Lowell