Tom Stoppard Quotes
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
Tom Stoppard
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
Ferran Adria
Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
Irvin D. Yalom
Wherever I go I make others feel good, and by doing this, I create life. I am a sting, and a dangerous instrument!
Walter Gropius
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
Saint Augustine
For each individual it is a great advantage to retain the rights over the fruits of his labour even though he must put off the enjoyment of them. His personal wealth is thus increased. For that is what wealth is,-command of the right to postponed consumption.
John Maynard Keynes
Any sort of performance was always what I was really born to do.
Kristian Nairn
I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.
Carson McCullers
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
Tom Stoppard