Ross Poldark Quotes

#1. I've lived with pressure all my life. I enjoy it.

Sergio Martinez

#2. And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

#3. I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

#4. Fortunately, going from the low end of this continuum to the recommended 10,000 steps can lead to significant health benefits in the short term as well as the long run.

Tom Rath

#5. Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth.

Lauren Miller

#6. Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

Anita Hamilton

#7. In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.

Thomas Carlyle

#8. I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.

Winston Graham

#9. Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

Nick Hornby

#10. The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down." "Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.

Winston Graham

#11. [On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.

Edith Roosevelt

#12. Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?'
'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.

Winston Graham

#13. The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and - and to love in return.

Winston Graham

#14. While mourning the number of missed opportunities, we have no reason to abandon a belief in the ever-present possibility of moulding circumstances for the better.

Alain De Botton