"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best."

-- Richard Chenevix Trench

#Book Quotes #Eye Quotes #Writing Quotes

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.”

Source : Love a la Mode act 2, sc. 1 (1759)
“Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.”

Source : "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.
“I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and Iâ€™m not like that at all.”
“Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.”
“School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.”
“The Holy Spirit has his own personality .He therefore moves in at will when we least expect it, and sometimes when we are least deserving of it.”

Source : R. T. Kendall (2016). “The Anointing”, p.21, Charisma Media
“I'm asking you in your sermons to do the work of the Lord here on earth. I ask for your help in getting that message out urgently tomorrow.”

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