William Nicholson: Doing

William Nicholson is British screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
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“Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.”

William Nicholson movie Shadowlands

Source: Shadowlands (1993)

God

“Brothers, what we do in life, echoes in eternity.”

William Nicholson

Gladiator (2000 film)

Life

“If everything you do is in order to do something else, when do you ever get to the end of it all?”

William Nicholson

Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Firesong (Book 3), p. 170

“The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.”

William Nicholson

Source: Motherland (2012 novel), p. 18

Drink , Thinking , Wine

“I don't want to do any of those things you said. I want – I want – to make things right.'
'Then so you shall.'
'Is it so easy?'
'Not easy. Not easy at all. Think how much is wanting to make things wrong. All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the loneliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is all muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.”

William Nicholson

Source: The "Wind on Fire" Trilogy (2000-2003), Firesong (Book 3), p. 274

World , Sadness , Fear , Feeling