"Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through."

“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.”

“Lovelace was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it cant get no better than that, right?”

“... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.”

“A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.”

Source : Joseph Devlin (2016). “How to Speak and Write Correctly”, p.91, Sheba Blake Publishing

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”

“Models are to be used, not believed.”

“Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown