Sir Henry Newbolt Quotes

#1. As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."

Robert Baden-Powell

#2. As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

Max Muller

#3. That which you love most will then become both your strength and your weakness.

Criss Jami

#4. I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.

Charles Baxter

#5. Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

Kathryn Bigelow

#6. When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

Tony Kushner

#7. Doc was more than first citizen of Cannery Row.
He was healer of the wounded soul and the cut finger.

John Steinbeck

#8. I learned from my past, and I now employ those lessons going forward, looking to the future - don't you think it's about time our government did, too?

Ian Somerhalder

#9. Well, if I ever suffer brain damage I know there's always a career waiting for me in local politics.

Jonathan L. Howard

#10. What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.

Koren Zailckas

#11. Jefferson was among the greatest men who had ever lived, a Renaissance figure who was formidable without seeming overbearing, sparkling without being showy, winning without appearing cloying.

Jon Meacham

#12. The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

Robert Breault

#13. I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination ... that really, really turns me on.

J. August Richards

#14. The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

King Hussein I