Alan Paton Quotes

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Alan Paton

Habit
Dwell

Quotes to Explore

I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.

Garth Brooks
- Life
- Good
- Work
If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

P. J. O'Rourke
- Children
- Family
- Job
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

Vikram Chatwal
- Father
- Me
- Religious
I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

Yves Behar
- Up
- Believe
- Technology
I'm a vocabulary nerd.

Sam Trammell
- Nerd
- Vocabulary
What we have found is that we were the principal mediators in many cases between the Iraqis and their own security forces and their own government, and so you have to almost embrace that role.

H. R. McMaster
- You
- Government
- Security