E. P. Thompson Quotes
The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.
The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
You can't make the world perfect, Daniel, " Michelle said calmly while dusting dirt off her jeans with her delicate hand. "No. I can't, " I agreed. "But I can sure help make it better.
He'd grown eager to hand off his things, as if the weight of his possessions kept him tethered to this earth, and by giving them away, he could snip those strings.
Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.
She was strong and stubborn but loving. She was an untouchable angel with a devil’s mark. She was beautiful.
The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers.
It’s going to be okay, Eric, " Urte said, helping me sit up. I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)
She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.
When everything was right, something was bound to go wrong. (Jessica)
One warm morning in July, a ghost came to our breakfast table.
Today like every day roughly 5, 000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.
On Saturday mornings Mr Ewing would make his rounds, giving each tradesman £1 and the apprentices, ten shillings. Needless to say, we were all peeping around corners awaiting his arrival!
It is tempting to say, as my friend suggested, that these online identities are caricatures of the real me. It is certainly true that social media can unleash the cruellest side of human nature.
People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.
Roger. Be Safe. We'll be there when we can, over.
I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.
We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?
Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.
…numerical precision is the very soul of science, and its attainment affords the best, perhaps the only criterion of the truth of theories and the correctness of experiments.
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I’ll wake up with sweat drenching my chest and think it’s the blood and muck I was covered in that night.
Kissing Hugh was lovely. Glad I invented it. Can't rely on Austen for a snog, that's for sure.
I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.
There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told and the man who will do nothing else.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness engenders hostility hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And perish in our own.
Oyin Da’s mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves.
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.
I really enjoy being with my fans. They offer great support and encouragement to me. I like signing autographs and posing for pictures.