J. M. Roberts Quotes

I have no good theories about why Randal survived. I find it no less than a miracle given what I've learned about the environment he was in for over 40 hours.

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• Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Two

• We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Government
  • Limits
  • Options

• Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Me
  • Dirty
  • Lie

• Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Religion

• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Fall
  • Heaven

• Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • American
  • America

• Buses and subways are this remarkable social club. You talk to people you wouldn't normally talk to.

  

  Carol Kane
  • People

• Face your financial issues head on. Open your bills, pick up the phone, call your lender. If applicable, tell them you're struggling and explain why. If you lost your job or took a pay cut, be ready to prove it.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

  

  Danny DeVito
  • Funny
  • Alone

• How you handle the obstacles has a big impact on how you do. If you give up, then you obviously don't get there, but if you're persistent, and you keep thinking of new ways to approach the business, you're more likely to reach your goal.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Business

• Our Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has given the Government's support to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which, more comprehensively, attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Life
  • Support
  • Single

• Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Work
  • God

• I am not going to pretend that flying a spaceship will be as safe as getting in a 747 with four engines for a flight across the Atlantic.

  

  David Mackay
  • Flying

• I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.

  

  Billy Paul
  • King

• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • Wine

• Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Life
  • Band

• The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Value
  • Theories
  • Economists

• Many discoveries must have been stillborn or smothered at birth. We know only those which survived.

  

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
  • Science
  • Birth
  • Discovery

• Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Imagination

• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  

  Walpola Rahula
  • Perfect
  • Paradise
  • Buddhism

• I take as much time as I need. I want to be fresh and smelling good.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fresh

• I have no good theories about why Randal survived. I find it no less than a miracle given what I've learned about the environment he was in for over 40 hours.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Theories
  • Survived
  • Randal