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“Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.”
Source : William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books
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“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.”
Source : Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).
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“I think there is a great quote - and I feel horrible that I don't know who said this - but it was a great quote, it says, "The only difference between all of us are the ones who are loved and the ones who are not."”
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“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
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“Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.”
Source : Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.14, Vintage
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“You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.”
Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.
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“In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.”
Source : "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.
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“Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing 'no thing,' and simply notice what you are experiencing.”