"A happy life is imposÂsiÂble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Happy Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Heroic Quotes

“You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!”
“I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.”

Source : "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, 2007.
“The will of God - nothing less, nothing more, nothing else.”

Source : F. E. Marsh (1987). “1000 Bible Study Outlines”, p.30, Kregel Academic
“They've named the well after you." "How did they know my name?" "They don't. They invented one.”

Source : Gerald Morris (2008). “The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”
“Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.”
“In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices”

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