There were two good reasons why Kelley preferred to thumb a ride back to Stanford rather than take a bus or train. Twelve round trips a year meant she could save over a hundred dollars, which her father could ill afford after being laid off by the water company. In any case he and Ma had already made quite enough sacrifices to.
All seemed to be in order. The boy had two legs, two arms, ten fingers, ten toes. Richard.
I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.
Winston Churchill had once told him, “An important speech should take an hour to write for every minute it took to deliver, while at the same time, dear boy, you must leave your audience convinced it was off the cuff.
Wellington wrote in his memoirs,’ said Old Jack, ’that the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.
He was, in the words of H. H. Munro, a man whose looks made it possible for women to forgive any other trifling inadequacies.
Naturally, some of the passengers begin to panic. Several of them leap out into the dimly lit tunnel.
1 say to the leaders of this great country, why not allow your people the same privileges we in the West take for granted? You can start by releasing Anatoly Babakov and allowing his book to be published. That is, if you have nothing to fear from the torch of freedom. 1 will not rest until 1 can buy a copy of Uncle Joe at Hatchards on Piccadilly, Doubleday on Fifth Avenue, Dymocks in Sydney, and George’s bookshop in Park Street, Bristol.
Seven pounds, nine shillings and sixpence turned out to be the value they’d put on Arthur’s life. I sat alone at the kitchen table, and I think that was the moment I knew I’d never see my husband again.
Just remember, New York isn’t an offshoot of Bloomsbury. Forget refinement, understatement and irony. However much it’s against your better nature, you’ll have to learn to sell your wares like an East End barrow boy.
I am sure the House will agree that given these circumstances, my final judgment will require the wisdom of Solomon.
But he knew that on the day of a general election, every candidate is convinced he is going to win, even the Liberals. Giles.
Perhaps it’s appallingly written, boring, without merit and unworthy of our time, but at least let us be the judge of that.
Faint heart ne’er won a lady fair.
She will open the conversation with a subject of her choice, to which you can respond appropriately. It is not considered courteous for you to ask her any questions, and you should address her as ma’am, which rhymes with jam, not harm.
Legend has it that they were never apart for more than a few hours.
The hour of triumph is not a time to belittle your rivals. Rather, it is a time to be magnanimous.
He recalled Old Jack’s words after he’d scored a century at Lord’s: anyone can be a good winner. The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat.
I’ll bet you can’t tell me who designed the garden. I’ll give you a clue: it’s later than the house.’ ‘I’ve only ever heard of one landscape gardener,’ said Harry, still staring at the house. ‘Capability Brown.’ ‘That’s exactly why we chose him,’ said Giles, ‘simply so that my friends would have heard of the fellow two hundred years later.’ Harry.
Fathers don’t ask their children’s permission to marry. In any case, I’m sure they’ll be delighted.