It feels great to be a two-time Six Nations winner.
When the father has eaten too much salt in his lifetime, then his son thereafter will have a great thirst.
Work like a slave and eat like a gentleman.
Borrowed money shortens time; working for others lengthens it.
Work is our business; it's success is God s.
Work paid for in advance has feet of lead.
When the head does not work, the legs suffer.
A work ill done must be twice done.
In a sane world I should be a great man; as things are, in this curious establishment, I am nothing at all; to all intents and purposes I don't exist. I am just a Vox et preaterea nihil.
There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.
It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
I like great music, but who doesn’t? Oh yeah, deaf people.
Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
we all do think of doing something in life;be it significant or not, do something positive.If you pursue great footsteps, you leave great footprints
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
Ever heard the phrase, 'candy is dandy but liquor is quicker?'" Great she wanted to get me drunk. "Ah...ever heard of underage!" "Where there's a will there's a way," she said, matter-of-factly. "That's your great plan?
Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.
Sometimes you have to realise that things will never change if you don’t make a change yourself, and sometimes, you need to realise that it only happened so that you could learn something.
I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.