quotes about Amelia

“There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.”

“I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.”

“I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.”

“Vices are simply overworked virtues ...”

“I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain -- this is force.”

“When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers.”

“Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.”

“Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press

“Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.”