Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

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• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Religious

• It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Parents
  • Immigration

• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Great
  • May

• Birthdays was the worst days; now we sip champagne when we're thirsty.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Champagne

• They make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only what suits their object, neglecting whatever is unrelated to it and carefully setting aside everything which might tend toward the idea they wish to combat.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Wish

• Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Unique

• For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true.

  

  Marie Rutkoski
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Profound

• But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

  

  James MacArthur
  • Today
  • Career

• If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

  

  Aisha Tyler

• If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that.

  

  John Lone
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • Dream
  • Space
  • inspirational

• From wine what sudden friendship springs!

  

  John Gay
  • Friendship
  • Wine

• From the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Die
  • Desire

• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Hold
  • Shape
  • Our

• All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Work
  • God
  • Men

• You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly. They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Sun
  • Grinned