Bernard Cornwell Quotes

'We asked for them in February. It's June now; they must be coming.' 'They've been saying that about Christ for eighteen hundred years.'

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• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• Well, everybody is trying to make this a money thing. If you send me to another team, let's see what I ask for. I won't ask for nothing. I'll play under the same terms. So it is not Gary wants more money. Gary has money. What else do I need?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Team

• The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Express

• I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Audience

• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Age

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Love
  • Singing
  • Grew

• I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Stuff

• A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • India
  • Mozart

• The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

  

  Wendell Berry

• Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Hate

• This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real

• This is my impression of a Southern woman. 'Tsk, I am so mad at the Taliban right now!'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Mad

• The blue guitar And I are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Blue

• Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • Revolution

• To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Work
  • Men
  • Interesting

• First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Earth

• Racing is in my blood, I can't quite get out of it yet.

  

  Dick Trickle

• We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Real
  • Opinion

• We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Experience
  • Free
  • Desire

• The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• 'We asked for them in February. It's June now; they must be coming.' 'They've been saying that about Christ for eighteen hundred years.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • June
  • February