"There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives."

-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#People Quotes #Clock Quotes #Certain Quotes

“I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.”
“... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”

Source : Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.49, Penguin UK
“The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.”
“In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.”
“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”

Source : Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”
“That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.”
“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”
“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

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