I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
Funny,’ Will said, as they picked their way through. ‘Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling. ’ ‘They are English,’ Merriman said. ‘Quite right,’ said Will’s father. ‘Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. We’re an odd lot….
The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.
I don't know who all of his advisers are, but I've seen some of the names and some of them are quite far to the right. And sometimes they might be in a position to make judgments or recommendations to the candidate that should get a second thought.
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.
I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
For the last episode [of Downton Abbey], you'll need some handkerchiefs. I needed handkerchiefs reading it. It wasn't because it necessarily moved me while reading it, but it was the experience of reading it when I realized it was the last time I was ever going to be reading one of those scripts. That was quite terminal.
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely
It is quite easy to understand what China would need from the African continent with regards to its own economy, raw materials, oil and a market for manufactured goods. As I say it is not difficulty to understand and perfectly legitimate. There is nothing wrong with that.
Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U. S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems.
I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.
Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky.
We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us. . . . God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.
Most women at retirement have significantly less money than men, and they still get paid less than men. I'm sure that in my reptile brain I'm quite conscious of this.
Nothing was quite like it was supposed to be.
I set up this little office space with a piano in it and I thought that would be quite a novel way of writing the album, to make it like a job - a romanticised version of the 9 to 5. I think that was probably my favourite time. I made sure I walked there every day, which took me about an hour.
Light is quite tactile to me. It has shape and dimension.
Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!
