"And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the expenses of your kitchen and your wines and your wardrobe and the wages of servants, and subtract your stock."

-- Robert Grosseteste

#Wine Quotes #Issues Quotes #Kitchen Quotes

“You should think about nobody and go your own way, not on a course marked out for you by people holding mugs of water and bottles of iodine in case you fall and cut yourself so that they can pick you up - even if you want to stay where you are - and get you moving again.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2003). “New and collected stories”, Robson Books Limited
“We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.”
“My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.”

Source : "Crime does pay". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2001.
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.”

Source : "Concrete".
“We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.”
“And because there is something they canâ€™t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they canâ€™t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and theyâ€™re scared.”
“First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.”

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