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“I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.”
Source : John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade
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“To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, to the wildest measure he had ever imagined, yet which he dimly, dreadfully remembered, till the lamp on the wall flickered and went out, and they were left in total darkness. And the devil woke in his heart with a thousand vile suggestions and made him afraid.”
Source : Algernon Blackwood (2014). “Three John Silence Stories”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
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“I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.”
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“Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.”
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“In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.”
Source : BETTY MACDONALD (1945). “THE EGG AND I”
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“What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”
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“I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.”
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“You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.”
