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Anthony Hopkins quote: "I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he..."
I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands. Anthony Hopkins
You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels. Tobias Wolff
Winston Churchill quote: "Short words are best and the old words when short are best of..."
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Winston Churchill
It's not the critic who counts. It's not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled. Credit belongs to the man who really was in the arena, his face marred by dust, sweat, and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs to come short and short again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming. It is the man who actually strives to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm and knows the great devotion, who spends himself on a worthy cause, who at best, knows in the end the... Theodore Roosevelt
Leelee Sobieski quote: "I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish..."
I go short and sweet on the engagement. I did have a longish engagement, but I think short and sweet is best. Leelee Sobieski
Winston Churchill quote: "Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old..."
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill quote: "The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all."
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. Winston Churchill
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it. Al Lopez
Edward Morgan Forster, OM (January 1, 1879? June 7, 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End: "Only connect." Forster was gay, but this fact was not made public during his lifetime. His posthumously... E. M. Forster
She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts if family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was chicken, she took the led; if there was a draft she sat in it-- in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others... I did my best to kill her. My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I acted... Virginia Woolf
Sydney Smith quote: "Take short views, Hope for the best, and Trust in God."
Take short views, Hope for the best, and Trust in God. Sydney Smith
Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. Terry Prachett
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best..."
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. Arthur Schopenhauer
In the Author’s mind there bubbles up every now and then the material for a story. For me it invariable begins with mental pictures. This ferment leads to nothing unless it is accompanied with the longing for a Form: a verse or prose, short story, novel, play or what not. When these two things click you have the Author’s impulse complete. (from the essay Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What’s To Be Said) C. S. Lewis
When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of... James C. Collins

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