Eric Bentley Quotes
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
Eric Bentley
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
J. I. Packer
Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
D. T. Suzuki
To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
Frederick Delius
I have come," said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him.
C. S. Lewis
There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
C. S. Lewis
Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.
Viola Davis
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
William Hazlitt
Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
Mahatma Gandhi
A tree there is that from its topmost bough
Is half all glittering flame and half all green
Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
And half is half and yet is all the scene;
And half and half consume what they renew.
William Butler Yeats
The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth
Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.
Lance Loud
