Ruth Padel Quotes

#1. In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

Howard Hodgkin

#2. Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.

Ruth Padel

#3. Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.

Elaine A. Cannon

#4. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone.

Oscar Wilde

#5. I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

Oliver Kahn

#6. Only lonely people keep diaries

L.M. Montgomery

#7. I'll follow, if you give the sign.

Ruth Padel

#8. Often when it comes to friends. When the rubber hits the road you'll find yourself hitch hiking

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more. In science, poetry or describing a journey, accuracy is all you can do. Saying it as you saw.

Ruth Padel

#10. The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

Wilhelm Keitel

#11. Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

Babe Ruth

#12. Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism ...

Daniel Dennett

#13. You break my sleep
And something like my heart.

Ruth Padel

#14. Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

Ruth Padel

#15. What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.

Ruth Padel

#16. You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it.

Bill Cosby

#17. 'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#18. How difficult it is to see
The things we love
With all this shadow round us,
This brief time we're here.

Ruth Padel