I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. “Away with you,” I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn’t grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
I find out more about Jack every week. Essentially, I’m the same character, but I’m having more fun this season because I’m doing more aliases, you know. I like the surprise of not knowing.
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
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