Endeavours Canadian Quotes & Sayings

All the rare-book dealers regaled me with stories of the trade. They told me that after the war there were too many books and not enough bookshop space, so all the dealers in London BURIED hundreds of old books in the open bomb craters of London streets. Today the buried books would be worth a fortune if they could be recovered, if the new buildings could be torn down and the rebuilt streets torn up. I had a sudden vision of an atomic war destroying everything in the world, except here and there an old book lying where it fell when it was blasted up out of the depths of London. — Helene Hanff

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. — H.G.Wells

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good counsel: generosity, longevity, acceptance, relinquishment, letting the world come to me
and, with these things to make a life. — Richard Ford

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — John Calvin

My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore. — Dom Irrera

Nevertheless, it is a change that is known and felt - known by works of holiness and felt by a gracious experience. This — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When using the run-walk method to finish a marathon, the most important walk break comes in the first mile. The second most important one comes in the second mile, and so on. The point is, walk before you become fatigued. — Jeff Galloway

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal

Open a book and a voice speaks. A world, more or less alien or welcoming, emerges to enrich a reader's store of hypotheses about how life is to be understood. — Marilynne Robinson

Like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects. — Robert Grudin

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music. — Neil Tennant

Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speaks something good. — George Herbert

The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose — Lou Reed