Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series...
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moving heartfelt mountain
It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.
war past historical
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.
memories chains-that-bind golden
Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.
book riches
One always has riches when one has a book to read.
worry anxiety doe
Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.
running queens war
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria's grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.
hope war thinking
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.
thinking people intuition
Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong ...
war thinking people
I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.
thinking answers testing
a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
trouble teach
Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.
time editors way
if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.
war mean army
It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."
time art art-of-living
only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living.