Quotes
Authors
Isobelle Carmody
"Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you." --
Source : Isobelle Carmody (2011). “Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One”, p.75, A&C Black
Isobelle Carmody
#People Quotes
#Worry Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
“If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.”
“There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.”
“At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.”
Source : Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.239, Modern Library
“Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?”
“My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.”
“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”
“Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.”
