#nat

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in that event most of the ships and shipbuilding facilities of Europe. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#british #captured #controlling #dominated #europe

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years. ↗

— William John Wills

#far #five #fortunate #four #journey

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#children #dictatorship #easily #grown-ups #how

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#death #fear #large #me #never

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#deceiving #fear #i #i do #inordinate

I wanted passionately to be a priest. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#passionately #priest #wanted

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#another #argue #bell #both #clock

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#am #britain #having #i #like

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock. ↗

— Carnie Wilson

#determination #i #i am #like #resilient