Areopagitica Author Quotes & Sayings

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying. — Mavis Staples

Hemingway described his process in similar terms: acquiring rich experiences, then retreating to cogitate and write about them. I needed words to go forward. And so it was literature that brought. — Paul Kalanithi

Hitler was a teetotalitarian. — Anthony Burgess

I had not known before that love is obedience. You want to love, and you can't, and you hate yourself because you can't, and all the time love is not some marvelous thing that you feel but some hard thing that you do. And this in a way is easier because with God's help you can command your will when you can't command your feelings. With us, feelings seem to be important, but He doesn't appear to agree with us. — Elizabeth Goudge

Be more weary of the fearful than of the brave. — Meeta Ahluwalia

Mother Maybelle, have mercy, we've just been discovered. — Alecia Whitaker

Rita Hayworth in Gilda ... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous. — Donna Mills

But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ ... Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ
in that order. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer