Peter Ackroyd Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism. – Peter Ackroyd Baptism Quotes Concern Quotes Discussed Quotes Infant Quotes Mentioned Quotes Mortality Quotes Provoked Quotes Rarely Quotes Siblings Quotes Thomas Quotes It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences – there’s no real pattern. Thomas More’s birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Historia Regum Britanniae’; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.
Peaches There’s no such thing as a perfect life, first of all, because you always have to keep a struggle – not a struggle, but you can’t just sit there, you know? You have to work for it. What makes a perfect life? Just being able to have enough money to live and work and be yourself. Humble things, really. – Peaches
Demba Ba I had to find a way of dealing with not starting matches, but when you don’t play and you’re surrounded by players who do, the negativity comes. – Demba Ba
Mauro Icardi I had the dream of playing in the Champions League in the Inter shirt, and therefore, I couldn’t leave. – Mauro Icardi
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