William Golding Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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In the West, anything that must be hidden is suspect; availability and honesty are interlinked. This clashes irreconcilably with Islam, where the things that are most precious, most perfect and most holy are always hidden: the Kaaba, the faces of prophets and angels, a woman's body, Heaven.
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.
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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
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At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, he'd also address that it was just a psychological state.
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When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy.
