Forrest Gander famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
I fear that for the most part people are worshiping worship rather than worshiping God and communing with Him.
I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!
Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.
An evening everyone agrees, is a lost evening.

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