Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two, " she said.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements.

How many times would he disappoint you in a day if you were married to him, Ursula wondered?

The gospel of Christ Jesus is the grace of salvation of souls.

You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God’s truth the head of everything

Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

We need a politician who hates politics.

The winner of the elections which saw the participation of almsot 30 million people was the Iranian nation and the losers were those who tried to keep people away from the polls.

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

Loving discipline encourages a child to respect other people and live as a responsible, constructive citizen.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.