"If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?"

-- Edith Sitwell

#Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes #Pekingese Quotes

“He (God) may sometimes chasten us, it is true, but even this He does with a smile, the proud, tender smile of a Father who is bursting with pleasure over an imperfect but promising son who is coming every day to look more and more like the One whose child he is.”
“I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.”
“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.”
“Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.”
“I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document.”

Source : "Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia': Pope Francis Knows What He Is Talking About". Interview with Deborah Castellano Lubov, zenit.org. April 12, 2016.
“I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.”
“You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.”
“someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.”

Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

You may also like:

Andre Kostelanetz
Conductor
Cecil Beaton
Photographer
Edmund Blunden
Poet
Osbert Sitwell
Writer
Rebecca West
Author
Roger Fry
Artist
William Butler Yeats
Poet
William Walton
Composer
Wyndham Lewis
Painter