"Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment."

-- Timothy Findley

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.”

Source : Bailey White (2009). “Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living”, p.20, Da Capo Press
“We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.”
“Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.”

Source : Stanley Cavell (1981). “Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage”, p.259, Harvard University Press
“There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.”
“If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.”
“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1919). “Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge”
“What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.108, Macmillan
“Everybody is looking for instant success, but it doesn't work that way. You build a successful life one day at a time.”

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