William Dalrymple Quotes
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.
William Dalrymple
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No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
Tony Kushner
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union.
Francois Mitterrand
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
John Tillotson
You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.
George Foreman
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
Terry Brooks
There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
Charles Eisenstein
I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.
Cate Blanchett
And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
Oscar Wilde
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell.
Edgar Allan Poe
Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone.
William Dalrymple
