Llewelyn Powys famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.
-- Llewelyn Powys

#Night #Sight #Sky
A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.
-- Llewelyn Powys

#Wise #Nature #Men
Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.
-- Llewelyn Powys

#Doubt #Ears #Half
The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.
-- Llewelyn Powys

#Rain #Fall #Compassion
The world is in need of less religion and more common sense.
-- Llewelyn Powys

#Common Sense #Needs #World

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.
You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Donâ€™t go getting shy on me now. â€˜Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.
I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
American troops and American taxpayers are shouldering a huge burden with no end in sight because Mr. Bush took us to war on false premises and with no plan to win the peace.
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.
For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

Llewelyn Powys famous quotes

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