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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.


Bernard Cornwell

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BERNARD WILLIAMS We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
SAINT BERNARD We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
BERNARD BARUCH I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.
BERNARD MANNING I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on...
BERNARD HILL There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The pursuit of the good and evil are now linked in astronomy as in almost all science. . . . The fa...
BERNARD LOVELL If you're driving around or at home with the stereo blasting pure dance track, it gets boring wi...
BERNARD SUMNER Joy Division sounded like Manchester: cold, sparse and, at times, bleak.
BERNARD SUMNER Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
CLAUDE BERNARD Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
BERNARD BRANSON The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort...
BERNARD INGHAM A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
BERNARD MAGAZINE A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still the...
BERNARD BARUCH Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
BERNARD BARUCH We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
BERNARD BARUCH Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu...
BERNARD BERENSON To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ...
BERNARD EDMONDS Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
BERNARD MELTZER We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving
BERNARD MELTZER During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But ...
BERNARD BARUCH Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
BERNARD BARUCH There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone.
BERNARD GILPIN Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a ...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re...
BERNARD MANDEVILLE