Candice Millard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?
...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.
Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

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