"If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence."

-- Arnold Bennett

#Giving Up Quotes #Lying Quotes #Effort Quotes

“There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick.”
“It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.”
“The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.”
“I like when a poem ends on its "receipts," meaning it gives me something tactile or tangible to dwell on as I exit the reading experience. So I strive to end my own poems that way as well.”

Source : Source: atticusreview.org
“Weâ€™ll all say that. Weâ€™ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until itâ€™s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and weâ€™ll be here, and weâ€™ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.”
“In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.”
“Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
“Jesus gave his life on the cross for any who will believe. We're not redeemed by silver or gold. Jesus paid for it with his blood.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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