"Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water."

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Source : Hugh Walpole (1985). “The Herries Chronicles”

Hugh Walpole

#Running Quotes #Country Quotes #Book Quotes

“I've been accused countless times of writing gloomy futures. But to me, the texture of my sci-fi just feels like an extrapolation of current trends.”
“Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.”
“To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.”

Source : Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
“An extraordinary life is all about daily, continuous improvements in the areas that matter most.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Feb 22, 2010
“There are many disturbing news. We believe that the production of conventional petroleum reached peak oil already in 2006. The oil fields in the North Sea and the US are collapsing ... time is running out.”
“I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.”
“The work has to have room to breathe.”
“I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.”

Source : James Boswell (1832). “The life of Samuel Johnson: including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides”, p.472

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