Collector John Fowles Love Quotes & Sayings

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. — Christopher Hitchens

Every "yes" changes something in me. Every "yes" is a bit more transformative. Every "yes" sparks some new phase of revolution. — Shonda Rhimes

Let me go, let me go. — Clara Barton

The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope. — Jorge Luis Borges

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. — John Fowles

successful people are the failures that refuse to quite, while failures are successful people that quite easily. — Sam Adeyemi

Being guided by your own thoughts and abilities, living out there on the high wire and being rewarded for it: That was the Chicago way. Nothing else counted. If it were sensational enough, whether a scientific breakthrough, a rousing new style of music, or an underworld murder, it would be celebrated. — Douglas Perry

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands. — John Heartfield

The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God. — Emmet Fox

I got to write most of everything I said. — R. Lee Ermey