Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.
My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me. " "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.
She succumbed to the eternal feminine passion for bargains.
Sir Richard sighed. "Rid yourself of the notion that I cherish any villainous designs upon your person," he said. "I imagine I might well be your father. How old are you?" "I am turned seventeen. " "Well, I am nearly thirty," said Sir Richard. Miss Creed worked this out. "You couldn't possibly be my father!" "I am far too drunk to solve arithmetical problems. Let it suffice that I have not the slightest intention of making love to you.
And now I wish I hadn’t been civil, because he says he shall not despair! He is as stupid as Endymion!” “No, no!” said Alverstoke soothingly. “Nobody could be as stupid as Endymion!
My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
When I step on the mat I know there is no other place I'd rather be.
The press. . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.
In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.