British Controlled Territory

Famous quotes containing the words british, controlled and/or territory:

    “The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    “To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”
    —Heraclitus (c. 535 B.C.–c. 475 B.C.)

    “We found ourselves always torn between the mothers in our heads and the women we needed to become simply to stay alive.With one foot in the past and another in the future, we hobbled through first love, motherhood, marriage, divorce, careers, menopause, widowhood—never knowing what or who we were supposed to be, staking out new emotional territory at every turn—like pioneers.”
    —Erica Jong (20th century)