Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

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.

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.

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?

Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps.

In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.

World looks narrow for great people, and world looks wide for minor people

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

Rivalry and envy are Siamese twins.

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in.