Di Provence Quotes & Sayings

Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand. — Hermann Hesse

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S. — Jackson Browne

Courage doesnt tell you to let go when you know what to grab next. Brave people let go when its time to let go. — Annie F. Downs

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out? — John Locke

I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. — David Quammen

But I've always found that the quickest way to make someone relent in his foolish edicts is to take every command literally and to perform it with flagrant obedience. — Courtney Milan

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory. — Criss Jami

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers. — Bernard Baruch