Michael Morpurgo Quotes

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

Michael Morpurgo

• Heart
• Dark
• Stories
• Difficult
• Reader
• Optimist
• Redemption

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• Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Women
  • Home
  • Reason

• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Direction

• We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

  

  Dan Burton
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Dad

• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • Free
  • Community

• I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Real
  • Normal
  • Straight

• There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • May
  • Day
  • Lies

• He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

  

  Samuel Foote
  • Others
  • Himself
  • Dull

• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • Great
  • America
  • Culture

• The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Long
  • Security
  • Well

• I sometimes think God is a s-t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s-t.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • God
  • Interesting

• It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Hate

• Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Beautiful
  • Princess

• I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Intelligent

• He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Gentleman

• But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

  

  Philip Gibbs
  • Done
  • Fighting

• Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Strong

• They've almost created a different identity with a different group of guys in a very quick turnaround. They've made it look very simple. You've got to give them a lot of credit, not just their coaching staff but their players, for buying into that and doing the things that they've done to be so successful.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Identity
  • Successful
  • Players

• I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Up
  • Friends
  • College

• In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

  

  John Densmore The Doors
  • Crazy
  • Twenties

• Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Heart
  • Dark
  • Stories