Runciman Quotes

#1. After noting that Germany's submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: For our part, we want the traffic - the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still.

Erik Larson

#2. Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

Louis XIV

#3. These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

Joanna Runciman

#5. Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.

Lauren Jauregui

#6. Dictators and tyrants are the ones who lead their people over a cliff.

David Runciman

#7. There's an ancient Eastern saying: If you don't decide where you're going, you'll end up wherever you're heading.

Russ Harris

#8. I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.

Steven Runciman

#9. The moral matrix of liberals, in America and elsewhere, rests more heavily on the Care foundation than do the matrices of conservatives

Jonathan Haidt

#10. Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

Monika Chiang

#11. When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

John Williams

#12. Holy Week is a good occasion to go to confession and to take up the right path again.

Pope Francis

#13. To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

David Runciman

#15. Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably by one's forebears

Steven Runciman

#16. I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'Goosebumps' books.

Dylan Minnette

#17. Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful.

Joanna Runciman

#18. Music creates order out of chaos.

Yehudi Menuhin

#19. Skin care must be good enough to eat!

Joanna Runciman

#20. Consider the impact of your personal care choices on our health, water supply and our wider environment.

Joanna Runciman

#21. You won't be expecting forever, Annwyl. And once the twins are
here, you'll be as violently cruel and madly bloodthirsty as you always
were."
"Now you're just trying to make me feel better."
"Is it working?"
"A little.

G.A. Aiken

#22. What is salvation without faith? is like
a Christmas tree without a star, is like
a kingdom without a king, is like
a heart without a beat, is like
a light switch that just won't turn on.

Anthony Liccione

#23. This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon.

Rebecca Raisin