"Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late."

-- Stephen R. Lawhead

#Humility Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.”
“Believe nothing because it is written in books. Believe nothing because wise men say it is so. Believe nothing because it is religious doctrine. Believe it only because you yourself know it to be true.”
“I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.”
“To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out.”
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
“All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.”

Source : Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.”
“I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.”

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