He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and...
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G.k. Chesterton
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
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Joseph J. Ellis
A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.
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Robin Bertram
This is stupid."" Look. You think how stupid people are most of the time. Old men drink. Women at a village fair. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Boys throwing stones at birds. Life. The foolishness and the vanity, the selfishness and the waste. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The pettiness, the...
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Joe Abercrombie
Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person who’s willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they can’t take pride in anything else.
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John Hawkins
More Quotes By Lia Mills
My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.
Grief made fools of us all. There was shock in it, but there could hardly be surprise.
A splinter of pride got in under my breast-bone and lodged there.
The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?
