Willesden Quotes

#1. We worried for her. We tend to assume the worst, here in Willesden. We watched her watching the shuttlecock. Pock, smash. Pock, smash. As if one player could imagine only a violent conclusion and the other only a hopeful return.

Zadie Smith

#2. No one was more liberal than anyone else anywhere anyway. It was only that here, in Willesden, there was just not enough of any one thing to gang up against any other thing and send it running to the cellars while windows were smashed.

Zadie Smith

#3. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Byron Katie

#5. The better your health now, the more years in your life and life in your years.

Abel James

#6. The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Stjepan Mesic

#7. Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another.

Frederick Lenz

#8. The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.

Brian Tracy

#9. Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Seneca The Younger