Quotes 1261 till 1276 of 1276.
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His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence.
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In America, burial means an embalmed body in a heavy-duty casket with a vault built over it, so that the ground doesn't settle. That body is encased in many layers of denial.
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds - not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but - a hatred of all injury.
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