quotes about Converses

last updated: November 28, 2023

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
-- Egerton Brydges

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143

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In books I converse with men, in the Bible I converse with God.
-- William Romaine

Source : William Romaine (1830). “Select Letters of the Rev. W. Romaine”, p.275

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“No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency”
“Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.”

Source : Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.12, Albert Einstein Institution
“If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.”
“I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.”
“When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.”
“Confidence has a lot to do with interviewing - that, and timing.”
“We often forget that we are nature...”
“Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.”
“See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.”

Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”