"Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love."

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Source : Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club

John Knowles

#Fighting Quotes #Land Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.”
“Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'”
“I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read. ...Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are.”
“When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.”
“I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". Nova (TV series), www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000.
“I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.”
“Christians in community must again show the world, not merely family values, but the bond of the love of Christ.”
“It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world.”

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