Quotes December 06, 2021

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
 
 
 
 
Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will see how you can go farther.
Thomas Carlyle – 1795-1881 – British Historian-Essayist-Philosopher-Mathematician-Teacher
 
 
 
 
The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
Ian Fleming,
writer, journalist, naval intelligence officer
 
 
 
 
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G.K. Chesterton,
writer, philosopher, critic
 
 
 
 
Lies require noise and misdirection to blend in, silence is the best way to draw the truth to the surface.
Anna Pitoniak
 
 
 
 
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank,
diarist
 
 
 
 
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 
 
 
 
You should never become lazy. It’s essential to remain positive about your life and never give up. You need to push yourself and stay aware, so you can move forward.
Tsuneko Sasamoto
 
 
 
 
Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
Virginia Woolf
 
 
 
 
Deceit, distortion, misdirection, and concealment are all lies in altered masks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
 
 
 
 
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Thomas Sowell
 
 
 
 
It’s hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
Lisa Randall
 
 
 
 
December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.
Anne Gisleson,
writer
 
 
 
 
It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.
Sarah Kay,
poet