I was the kid who never won the races… I wasn’t on the list of the high-achieving. Kate Winslet Read Quote
It’s tragic that there are so few farmer-direct coffees in Africa, but it’s very tough. David Robinson Read Quote
I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable. Ingrid Betancourt Read Quote
I’m obsessed with not chucking away food. I’m lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sweetcorn, tomatoes, beetroots, cabbages, pumpkins, lettuce. I’m trying to get into blanching it and freezing so I don’t have to buy veg over the winter, but then you need loads of freezers, and that’s not ideal. Stella McCartney Read Quote
From one week to the next, everything changes from who you’re playing to the defense’s scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward. Matt Cassel Read Quote
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn’t because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil. Nathan Myhrvold Read Quote
It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. Alice Meynell Read Quote