Arthur Weigall Quotes & Sayings

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft! — Theodore Roosevelt

You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed. — Alison Croggon

But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn't make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She'd always been too desperate about Jake. Always. — Sarah Addison Allen

Too often we argue about Christianity instead of marveling at Jesus. — John Ortberg

If I called her she would pretend not to hear, but would come a few moments later when it could appear that she had thought of doing so first. — Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall

And yet suddenly, terribly, he wanted it again, the way it used to be, arms linked together, all drunk and singing beautifully into the night, with visions of death from the afternoon and dreams of death in the coming dawn, the night filled with a monstrous and temporary glittering joy, fat moments, thick seconds dropping like warm rain, jewel after jewel. — Michael Shaara

You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Coincidence is a factor in life not always sufficiently considered; and the events I have related can be explained in a perfectly natural manner, if one be inclined to do so. — John Richard Stephens

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant. — Arthur Machen