Inns Quotes - Page 5

• Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Home, Blessing, Journey

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• I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Holiday, Surprise, Window

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!

  Anthony Joshua

  Squad, Waiting, Hotel

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

  Utada Hikaru

  World, Might, Disappear

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• Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

  Bob Dylan

  Real, Talking, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere.

  Arthur Machen

  Secret, World, Mystery

  Arthur Machen (1951). “The Autobiography of Arthur Machen”, London : Richards Press

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• Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

  Edward Gibbon

  House, Masters, Mankind

  Edward Gibbon (2017). “Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)”, p.4, Litres

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• Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.

  R. S. Thomas

  Beer, Dark, Two

  R. S. Thomas, “Poetry For Supper”

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• The Gerat Bald Swamp Hedgehog of Billericay displays, in courtship, his single prickle and does impressions of Holiday Inn desk clerks. Since this means him standing motionless for enormous periods of time he is often eaten in full display by The Great Bald Swamp Hedgehog Eater.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Holiday, Mean

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• The world's an Inn; and I her guest.

  Francis Quarles

  World, Guests

  Francis Quarles, “On The World”

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• Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Home, Next Week, Two

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.191, Scholastic UK

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• It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Believe, Night, Men

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

  John Dryden

  Life, Death, Journey

  'Palamon and Arcite' (1700) bk. 3, l. 883

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• But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.

  Moby

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Home, Men

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 16: 1870”, Lulu.com

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• A country inn is a percolator. News seeps, simmers, and bubbles.

  Zelda Popkin

  Country, News, Bubbles

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• I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
  [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Death, Home, Exes

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• Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Hypocrisy, Pedants, Form

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• Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

  Al Gore

  Religious, Children, Years

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• Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Life Is, Uncomfortable

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• I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Abyss, Take Me

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Richard Zenith Edition, p. 40, 2006.

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• And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

  Mike Huckabee

  Holiday, Night, People

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• I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Holiday, Journey

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• First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Faith, Mistake, Believe

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• To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Wicked, Succeed

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

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