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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors. — Sue Townsend

The birds can fly, An' why can't I? — John Townsend Trowbridge

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. — Sue Townsend

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing — Ally Carter

Cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

We are the rich. We own America. We got it God knows how, but we intend to keep it. — Frederick Townsend Martin

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly. — Stuart Townsend

We were created to make the impossible possible. — Vista Townsend

Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Nothing was true for long. In time, everything was deconstructed. — Sue Townsend

Inflation is the senility of democracies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

If UEFA will not embrace video technology, then we need two more officials behind the goals to help the referee. — Andy Townsend

No one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

But what are wishes, compared with longings? — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not do booby traps. — Ally Carter

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast. — Andy Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right. — Stuart Townsend

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay. — John Townsend Trowbridge

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former. — Townsend Harris

I seem to be able to get depressed quite easily without any reason. — Sue Townsend

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once. — Townsend Harris

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend

I always knew I had no small talk, and now I know I've got no big talk either. — Sue Townsend

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. — Townsend Harris

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything. — Sue Townsend

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war. — Townsend Harris

Kate, like many other people, found herself a fascinating topic, and when encouraged was very willing to hold forth. — John Rowe Townsend

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned. — Sue Townsend

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Holdfast the Dream — Tom Townsend

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do. — Townsend Harris

The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance. — Sue Townsend

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Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself. — Sue Townsend

Soberity makes me write dull songs about reorganizing the knick knacks in my house. — Devin Townsend

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things. — Townsend Harris

When all my kids were at home, I used to write from midnight onwards. — Sue Townsend

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

One cannot revoke a true happiness. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created. — Robert Townsend

I think you glow more when you embarrassed. Maybe that's how you blush. — Kat Falls

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade. — Sue Townsend

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war. — Townsend Harris

We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff. — Robert Townsend

Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us. — Sue Townsend

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs. — Robert Townsend

My blood ran with this ink... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

History is a means of access to ourselves. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

You'd better close those lips before I'm tempted to kiss them and really give you something to be all hot and bothered about. — M. Leighton

Our days, our deeds, all we achieve or are, Lay folded in our infancy; the things Of good or ill we choose while yet unborn. — John Townsend Trowbridge

With years a richer life begins, the spirit mellow: ripe age gives tones to violins, wine, and good fellows. — John Townsend Trowbridge

Rather than being about money or material possessions as such, poverty is about the inability to participate actively in society. — Peter Townsend

Chicharito must have icicles flowing through his veins — Andy Townsend

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane ... — Sue Townsend

Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not. — John Townsend

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems. — Sue Townsend

What's the most important quality a person could have, something that would benefit us all? — Sue Townsend

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy

In order to be discipled by others a person must have a trusting heart, one that listens even when it doesn't fully comprehend or see the end result. — Ed Townsend

The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be? — John Townsend Trowbridge

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down. — Sue Townsend

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it. — Sue Townsend

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

It was not I who was teaching my cat to gather rosebuds, but she who was teaching me. — Irving Townsend

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head. — Sue Townsend

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. — Robert Townsend

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty ... — John Townsend Trowbridge

It appears that the English think the Japanese ... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also. — Townsend Harris

My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it. — Sue Townsend

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author ... — Sylvia Townsend Warner

When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that. — Stuart Townsend

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I take life very seriously. I can laugh at it, because what else can you do? But it's a hard daily battle. — Sue Townsend

She was heavier than he expected - women always are. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

She had always been comforted by confectionery — Sue Townsend

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford. — Sue Townsend

Love amazes, but it does not surprise. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. — Townsend Harris

Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times. — Sue Townsend

Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic. — Sue Townsend

No man is competent unless he can stalk alone and armed in the wilderness. — Townsend Whelen