Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Sebastian Faulks

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• I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Past
  • Worry

• I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Life
  • Know
  • Never

• ... all of us talk faster than we listen.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Faster

• It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• You win some, you learn some.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Winning

• Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Lord
  • Pray
  • Appointment

• It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise benevolence that makes preparation in the hour of peace for assuaging the ills that are sure to accompany war.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Time
  • War
  • Peace

• The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Air

• For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

  

  William Petty
  • Soldier
  • Merchants
  • Seamen

• In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Learning
  • Promotion
  • Scheme

• Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Brain
  • Anxiety
  • Incredibles

• The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • You
  • Surrender

• Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Sweetness
  • Stillness

• Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Surrender
  • Sweetness