Leopold Schefer famous quotes

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn
-- Leopold Schefer

#Mean #Fire #Shining

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
-- Leopold Schefer

#Drinking #Thinking #Thirst

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
-- Leopold Schefer

#Poetry

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother.
-- Leopold Schefer

#Mother #Wife #Earth

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.
-- Leopold Schefer

#Prayer #Eye #Heaven

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!