Many Quotes (page 155)

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• confused
• people
• him

He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are nave enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that they think of him as being rather more to the left than he really is. Christopher Hitchens

• power
• heart
• powerful

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin. There is an exceeding efficacy nad power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it constantly inclines itself towards evil. We need to be awake, then, if our hearts would know the ways of God. Our enemy is not only upon us, as it was with Samson, but it is also in us. John Owen

• powerful
• mind
• consider

Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe. Joanna Baillie

• motivational
• life
• moving forward

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward. Sylvester Stallone

• personal
• waste
• nature

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. Charles Bukowski

• eyes
• humanity
• year

How many human eyes ...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years? Clive Barker

• best
• writing
• life

That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it. Mario Vargas Llosa

• life
• parents
• children

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• personality
• personal
• opium

Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon. Jonathan Swift

• socialists
• because
• socialist

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists. Jorge Luis Borges

• life
• short
• beautiful

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. Kate DiCamillo

• morning
• writing
• evening

Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so many lovers. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• sky
• to live
• skies

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. David Herbert Lawrence

• new
• humanity
• question

Trout trudged onward, a stranger in a strange land. His pilgrimage was rewarded with new wisdom, which would never have been his had he remained in his basement in Cohoes. He learned the answer to a question many human beings were asking themselves so frantically: "What's blocking the traffic on the westbound barrel of the Midland City stretch of the Interstate? Kurt Vonnegut

• life
• time
• look

As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. Anne Rice