Graham Greene quotes
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.
Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims.
Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.
Choose well or die. I don't care which. Just don't get blood on my coat.
How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, 'That man!' ' 'Hush!' said Margaret, 'or I shall try and show you your mother's indignant tones as she says, 'That woman!'
Hey, Volusian, you haven't been checking me out, have you?' He gave me his trademark bland stare. 'I assure you, mistress, the only allure your bare flesh has for me is to remind me how easy it will be to slice open.' I laughed. If not for the fact he was actually serious, he'd be so much fun.
Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.
No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.
Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution.
Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training for genuinely useful Neolithic skills! Think about it. The game consists of lots of patient waiting and watching (stalking), throwing with incredible accuracy and speed, sprinting, dodging... and hitting moving objects real hard with clubs! And arguing. Hey, what else could you possibly need? Now, tell me, how do soccer or basketball prepare you to survive in the wild, hm
It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.
Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo, a star shines on the hour of our meeting.
Writing is like a sport - you only get better if you practice
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.