Philip B Downing Quotes

#1. Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

John Muir

#2. I hate being poor.

J.K. Rowling

#3. If you are loving, kind, compassionate, and caring then you are almost God.

Debasish Mridha

#4. In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

Leslie Charteris

#6. Most days disintegrate like ash at first grasp of memory, which only stows the bright and curious, as does the crow.

Eric Forsberg

#7. A diamond does not lose its value because it is covered in mud.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

George Mikes

#9. The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.

Martin Jacques