"His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him."

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Source : Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.19, Harper Collins

Kenneth Oppel

#Cheer Quotes #Speech Quotes #Enthusiastic Quotes

“One kiss, I was totally hooked.”
“In the end, we all are who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed.”
“Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.”
“In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.”
“Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.”
“There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.”
“Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1994). “Dawn Powell at Her Best”
“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.”

Source : Speech at Fernbank, London, February, 1972.

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