Quotes of John Fowles

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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed.

- John Fowles

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“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ”

- Chuck Klosterman

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams. ”

- Jocelyn Soriano

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ”

- Gary Zukav

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast. ”

- Steve Pavlina

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially ”

- Veronica Roth

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus! ”

- Neal A. Maxwell

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon