"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it"

-- Lyman Beecher

#Running Quotes #Lying Quotes #Character Quotes

“The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.”
“As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.”

Source : John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.313
“Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!”
“I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked.”
“Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter”
“Like the enotmologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.”
“These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.”
“Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.”

Source : "Face to face with death" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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