"The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so."

-- Gabriel Josipovici

#Book Quotes #Wish Quotes #Enough Time Quotes

“The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.”
“John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.”

Source : Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”
“Is an artist much more than a beggar?”

Source : Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Eva Weissweiler, Hildegard Fritsch, Ronald L. Crawford (1994). “The complete correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann”, Peter Lang Pub Inc
“Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart.”
“It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1865). “Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865”, p.6
“There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.”
“It takes a great man to make a great listener”
“I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.”

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