"Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted."

-- Robert James Waller

#Nice Quotes #Moving Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.”
“One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.”
“Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable....”
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
“You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds”
“Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can itself only come from widespread industrialisation and the infusion of modern science and technology into the country's economic life.”
“There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.”
“I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.”

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