Quotes
Authors
Hugh Reginald Haweis
"Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you." --
Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.365
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#Solitude Quotes
#Isolation Quotes
#Sin Quotes
“My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?”
“Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.”
“Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and deciding the best course of action in the face of that future are much less likely to do so. And much of what we've seen so far suggests that a large group of diverse individuals will come up with better and more robust forecasts and make more intelligent decisions than even the most skilled "decision maker."”
“Happiness is a new idea in Europe.”
“I know this... a man got to do what he got to do.”
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”
“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”
“Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and adolescence, and that imbues you with two things. First, a hyper-sensitivity to grammar, because a stammerer will have problematic sounds, impossible verbal stumbling blocks. Second, writing is just such a joy when you have a problem with speaking. It's so astonishing to watch language coming out of your pen without any hesitation or dysfluency.”
