“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
“The imagination is an eye where images remain forever.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“… And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“So we remain, forever more,
Immortal and Found.”
Masiela Lusha (1985) Albanian actress, writer, author
from the poem, This Child Desires Spring http://www.masielalushafoundation.org/board.php
“Everything depends on upbringing.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Variant: Everything intelligent is so boring.
Source: War and Peace
“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book The First Circle
Source: The First Circle
“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”
Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
“Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130.
Context: Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. "Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever."
“Everything depends on how something is said.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 102 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA102 <br class="br">Context: The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.