"The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it"

-- Simon Jenkins

#People Quotes #Care Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Todays youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their sore and yellow as this splendid mans creations have in mine!”
“I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.”
“It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.”
“Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.”
“We know that a ready amnesty tends to be an invitation to more illegal entries.”
“I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.”
“Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14-21, 2010.
“The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.”

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