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Willingly Quotes (page 359)

If your only motive is to be loved, to ingratiate yourself with the crowd, you're bound to fall into bad habits, and eventually the public will grow tired of you. You have to keep testing yourself, pushing yourself as hard as you can. You do it for yourself, but in the end it's this struggle to do better that endears you to your fans. Paul Auster
no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning— So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "These hobbits will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the..."
These hobbits will sit on the edge of ruin and discuss the pleasures of the table. J. R. R. Tolkien
To feel one’s attachment to a certain region, one’s love for a certain group of men, to know that there is always a spot where one’s heart will feel at peace these are many certainties for a single human life. And yet this is not enough. But at certain moments everything yearns for that spiritual home Albert Camus
I was like Elvis "The Pelvis" Presley on Ed sullivan, I tells ya, punished for the crime of being sexy. (him on the telly , me in a dingy alley... any analogy will break down under scrutiny.)-My Booky Wook Russell Brand
There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind. John Fowles
George MacDonald quote: "Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you..."
Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die. George MacDonald
If in one hundred years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes, then I will have considered my life a failure. Arthur Conan Doyle
To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. W. Somerset Maugham
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name! Abraham Kuyper
Albert Einstein quote: "If you judge a fish by its 'ability' to climb a tree, it will..."
If you judge a fish by its 'ability' to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing it's stupid Albert Einstein
I’m not scared, though. Norman has kind of thick glasses, and I bet he couldn’t actually hit anything, even with a machine-gun, which even a lunatic like Norman is allowed to buy in this country thanks to our totally unrestrictive gun laws, which Michael Moscovitz says in his webzine will ultimately result in the demise of democracy as we know it. Meg Cabot
It will be said that a rational person accepts the world as mixed of good and evil with decent satisfaction and decent endurance. But this is exactly the attitude which I maintain to be defective... We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. Gilbert K. Chesterton
No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. Anne Tyler
Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt. George R. R. Martin

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